Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fulfilling; accomplishment; fulfilment; satisfaction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Accomplishment; fulfillment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete accomplishment; fulfillment

Etymologies

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Latin expletio a satisfying. See expletive.

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Examples

  • So sell me gundy, sagd the now waging cappon, with a warry posthumour’s expletion, shoots ogos shootsle him or where’s that slob?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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