expletion

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
  2. (archaic, linguistics) An expletive or interjection

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