wish-fulfilling

comparative more wish-fulfilling · superlative most wish-fulfilling · alternative wishfulfilling

1. Able to grant wishes.

   The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi

   2006, The Great Kagyu Masters

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   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.

   2004, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma - Volume 1, page 317

   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.

   2005, Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism, page 408

2. Satisfying a wish.

   This is what we mean by wish-fulfilling hallucination.

   2011, Dermot Gilvary, Darren J. N. Middleton, Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene

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   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.

   1998, Dionysios Anapolitanos, Aristeidēs Baltas, Stavroula Tsinorema, Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science, page 273

   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, Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, Paul Jenner, The Contemporary American Novel in Context