Fulfillment
[fʊl'fɪlmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc).
(noun.) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires.
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Definition
(n.) The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.
(n.) Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.
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Examples
- The fulfillment of growing is taken to mean an accomplished growth: that is to say, an Ungrowth, something which is no longer growing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He said nothing, but he smiled at me with the air of a man who sees the fulfillment of that which he had expected. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The fashion of delving out fulfillments of prophecy where that prophecy consists of mere ifs, trenches upon the absurd. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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