repletion

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The pal approved of the cats, now dormant in Persian repletion, and they were bundled into the sacks, and taken away on the barrow--mewing, indeed, but with mews too sleepy to attract public attention I'm a fence--that's what I am,' said the burglar gloomily.

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  1. noun The condition of being fully supplied or completely filled.
  2. noun A state of excessive fullness.

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  • Normal behavior for the theropods is thought to have been for the creature to sleep for a matter of days after eating to repletion, after which the old kill would be revisited. —  Paleontology: An Experimental Science
  • With their wings trailing in the mud, and their beaks separated, as if gasping for breath, their brilliant eye dulled from repletion--there they remained, emitting an effluvium so offensive that the numerous skeletons, and the mingled remains of mortality, were pleasing compared to such disgusting specimens of living corruption The party viewed the scene for a minute or two without speaking, and then turned away by common consent, and did not break silence until they had left it far behind I begin to think," said Courtenay, taking out his box, "that even a savage may occasionally have an excuse for taking snuff. —  The King's Own
  • The cuisine of the country does not tempt the stomach to repletion, and the climate is decidedly peptic. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
  • The inevitable lunch at the club house is occasionally enlivened by a friendly tiff over the possession of a piazza table where is offered a view of the course combined with the comforts of repletion, and is, in consequence, considered a vantage point of desirability. —  The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2
  • Gorged to repletion, they slept, or wasted their substance with the improvidence of jungle-beasts. —  The Gun-Brand
 

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  1. from Middle English replecioun, from Old French repletion, replecion, French réplétion = Provencal replecio = Spanish replecion = Portuguese repleção = Italian replezione, from Latin repletio (n-), a filling up, from replere, fill up: see replete.
 

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