SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:
REPLETION
PRONUNCIATION:
(ri-PLEE-shuhn)
MEANING:
(noun): The condition of being completely
filled or satisfied.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via
French, from Latin replere, from re- (back, again) + plere (to fill), from
plenus (full). Earliest documented use: 1398.
USAGE:
"Her
body tingled with repletion and yet she was somehow unsatisfied."
Susan Swann; The Ritual of Pearls; Little, Brown; 1995.
Susan Swann; The Ritual of Pearls; Little, Brown; 1995.
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