What does wish-fulfilling mean?
Wish-fulfilling means Able to grant wishes..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Able to grant wishes..
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.
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.
The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi
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.
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.
This is what we mean by wish-fulfilling hallucination.
Use wish-fulfilling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wish-fulfilling means Able to grant wishes..
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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.
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