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
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
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
Everything serves as fuel for passion: abstinence sharpens it, repletion strengthens it, virtue keeps it awake .
From Time Magazine Archive
Filled to repletion, she then suffered Prudence to change her day cap for a nightcap, falling asleep almost before her head touched the pillow.
From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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