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