wish-fulfilling

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wish-fulfilling (comparative more wish-fulfilling, superlative most wish-fulfilling)

  1. Able to grant wishes.
    • 2004, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma - Volume 1, page 317:
      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.
    • 2005, Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism, page 408:
      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.
    • 2006, The Great Kagyu Masters:
      The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi
  2. Satisfying a wish.
    • 1998, Dionysios Anapolitanos, Aristeidēs Baltas, Stavroula Tsinorema, Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science, page 273:
      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.
    • 2011, Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, Paul Jenner, The Contemporary American Novel in Context:
      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.
    • 2011, Dermot Gilvary, Darren J. N. Middleton, Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene:
      This is what we mean by wish-fulfilling hallucination.
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