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wish-fulfilling

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Able to grant wishes.
  2. Satisfying a wish.

Examples

“That precious wish-fulfilling jewel, although it has no thought, if it is placed on top of a victory banner, will rain⟳ down jewels, food, and clothing.”
“This is actually a safety measure⟳ because if the wish-fulfilling mantras were easily chanted, there would no doubt⟳ be many people who would misuse them.”
“The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi”
“And their dreams were the ones that prompted Freud in 1933 to acknowledge an exception to his 1900 thesis that manifest dream⟳ contents universally feature wish-fulfilling scenarios in more or less disguised forms.”
“Earlier we saw⟳ that, at the level of the individual sentence, the novel is usually in the indicative or flatly descriptive mode; at the level of plot itself, however, the mood is often 'optative' or wish-fulfilling.”
“This is what we mean⟳ by wish-fulfilling hallucination.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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