The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspiration \Sus`pi*ra"tion\, n. [L. suspiratio. See Suspire.] The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh.
Windy suspiration of forced breath.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Latin suspirationem (nominative suspiratio), noun of action from past participle stem of suspirare (see suspire).
Wiktionary
n. The act of breathing, not necessarily for a sustained period (compare respiration, which is sustained)
WordNet
n. an utterance made by exhaling audibly [syn: sigh]
Usage examples of "suspiration".
With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room, hallfloor, and reentered.
It had snowed in Calgary the night before, four inches of fluffy accumulation now melting under the warm suspiration of a chinook.
She knew that each suspiration was comprised of hundreds of high blats, the barely audible aspect of her echolocation.
Partial clumps of underwood formed a tolerable screen between them and the road they had just quitted, and they sat scarcely allowing themselves to respire, lest the suspiration of their breath should prevent their hearing any other sound which it might be important to them not to lose.
Cormac mac Art emerged from the subterrene escape-route from the Castle of Atlantis, and he drew in great lungsful of clear clean air, which he released in long suspirations.
With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room, hallfloor, and reentered.
That night, when the domes lay under their usual suspirations that passed for silence, and Laputa and Swift slid across the sky outside, I undressed and went to Cang Hai's bed.
It was a sly suspiration, a sound that played beguilingly around the outer ear without ever really intruding, yet they heard it anyway, a laugh that froze only random drops of blood within their veins.
He stood for a while at the door, motionless and silent, listening to the long, harsh, uneven suspirations ending each in a choked gurgle.