Obs. rare. [a. OF. aspirement, f. aspirer: see ASPIRE v. and -MENT.]
1. Breathing, breath.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 93. Air … Of whose kinde his aspirementes Taketh every livissh creature.
2. Aspiring, aspiration, steadfast upward desire.
1607. Brewer, Lingua, III. vi. in Hazl., Dodsl., IX. 399. By which aspirement she her wings displays, And herself thither, whence she came, upraise.
a. 1679. T. Goodwin, Wks., 1863, VII. 483. And not Christ only, but God also, is the object of our aspirement.
