repletion

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Repletion is less injurious than inanition; and according to my observation gluttony is the vice of adults rather than of children.

From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Repletion, heat, and fatigue were too strong a combination for complete wakefulness; and though perhaps not exactly asleep, we were, like hibernating animals, very dully conscious of passing events.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

Repletion of scones were a small price to pay for such a glowing, such an incredible gift of opportunity, thrust thus straight into the willing, amazed hands….

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Repletion, satiety, and indigestion, follow in one case precisely as in the other.

From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Repletion, excess, intemperance, superfluous humours, diseases, fevers, pains, and the dangers of death, vanish, in her presence, like clouds before the sun.

From Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Wherein is demonstrated, by his own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age by Cornaro, Luigi