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Repletion   Listen
noun
Repletion  n.  
1.
The state of being replete; superabundant fullness. "The tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap." "Repleccioun (overeating) ne made her never sick."
2.
(Med.) Fullness of blood; plethora.





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"Repletion" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a German university, a man who has written three books and has a reputation for always winning his lawsuits, sought me out after a dinner, with the fatal accuracy of a man who has dined to repletion and wishes ...
— From a Girl's Point of View • Lilian Bell
... to five-and-twenty bushels per acre of wheat, and two hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes, were mentioned by the farmer as an average crop. His barns and root-house were full to repletion. Nothing of all this property was locked up: a latch on ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... quantity, as would at another time have produced a fever or a surfeit: And yet our digestion so well corresponded with the keenness of our appetites, that we were neither disordered nor even loaded by this repletion; for after having, according to the custom of the island, made a large beef breakfast, it was not long before we began to consider the approach of dinner as a very desirable, though ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... principle becomes that of our administration only because it prevails in Congress; it prevails in Congress only because it is sent there by the voters; and the voters are imbued with it only because public opinion is filled with it to repletion. ...
— What Is Free Trade? - An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Econimiques" - Designed for the American Reader • Frederic Bastiat
... eyes fixed widely upon him, a slow, affirmative movement of her head rather as though she were some engine, and her head the dial, absorbing power from a flow of energy. The dial never indicated repletion. Mr. Simcox delighted to talk to Rosalie, to watch that grave movement of her head, and to hear the short occasional "Why's?" and comments that came like little spurts or quivers as of the engine in initial throbbings pulsing the ...
— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson


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