repletion
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With repletion came dissatisfaction: a hunger for something more, or for something different.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018
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
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
A betrothal, it may be, is serious, Arranged by grave-faced parents with stately rites; Yawns are serious and so is repletion.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
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