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FULFILMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc)
Synonyms:
fulfillment; fulfilment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fulfilment" is a kind of...):
consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fulfilment"):
self-fulfillment; self-realisation; self-realization (the fulfillment of your capacities)
Derivation:
fulfil (put in effect)
fulfil (meet the requirements or expectations of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires
Synonyms:
fulfillment; fulfilment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("fulfilment" is a kind of...):
satisfaction (the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation)
Derivation:
fulfil (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)
Context examples:
Yes, he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark my progress and claim the fulfilment of my promise.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
There is no such thing as such fulfilment on this earth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfilment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I leaned my head upon my hand; and felt more sorry and downcast, as I sat looking at the fire, than I could have supposed possible so soon after the fulfilment of my brightest hopes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
