Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fulfill andfulfil .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective completed to perfection
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Examples
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Besides, they who set up this accommodating principle of accommodation, do, in some cases, take the term fulfilled in its proper sense, and do allow it, (when convenient) to relate to a prophecy really fulfilled.
The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old George Bethune English 1807
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Down-rating these phenomenal movies (and, likely, well-made set) just because you aren't having your shallow need for instant gratification fulfilled is childish and pathetic.
Lord of the Rings Theatrical-Edition Blu-Ray Angers Fans | /Film 2010
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How will I continue to feel fulfilled from a business standpoint?
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That the promise of that effort has not been fulfilled is very disappointing to all of us.
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The first condition and the most difficult that must be fulfilled is that somebody has got to produce the money.
The Scottish Scene 1954
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In this use of the word fulfilled, it means not that the passage was at first intended to apply to this particular thing, but that the words aptly or appropriately express the thing spoken of, and may be applied to it.
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To understand this, it may be remarked that the word fulfilled is used in the
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Whereupon he again fulfilled the promises of youth, the leadings of his birth star and the promptings of his spirit guides, and told all he knew about the whole Watson family, not forgetting the roses he had taken to her, and Mrs. Crocks 'diagnosis of it all.
Purple Springs 1921
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We find the last two time and again fulfilled, but I want to point to university graduates from the city who are today fighting in the trenches and who have refused to take out commissions, but who are standing by their old comrades in the trenches and doing their duty as Canadian soldiers fearlessly and well.
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Scala Sancta, laid out the prescribed sum on relics, beads, scapulars, medals, and what-not, and, in short, fulfilled all the articles of my uncle's vow.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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