Noun
The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it. George Henry Lewes