breath of life

English

Noun

breath of life

  1. Divine animation; that which brings life into living things.
    • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 20:
      He it was who had bespangled the soils with russet leaves and reeds and who had breathed the breath of life into beings.
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