repletion
Example Sentences
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With repletion came dissatisfaction: a hunger for something more, or for something different.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018
Everything serves as fuel for passion: abstinence sharpens it, repletion strengthens it, virtue keeps it awake .
From Time Magazine Archive
Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have to earn silence, then, to work for it: to make it not an absence but a presence; not emptiness but repletion.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is more than probable that the forced dilatation of the stomach has arrested the spasms, for filling this viscus with cold drinks to repletion will often effect the same result.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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