expletion

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English

Etymology

From Latin expletio (“a satisfying”). See expletive.

Noun

expletion

  1. (obsolete) accomplishment; fulfillment
    • 1713, John Killingbeck, Eighteen sermons on practical subjects:
      For sure they conduce nothing at all to the Perfection of Men's Natures, nor the Expletion of their Desires

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “expletion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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