wish-fulfilling

Definitions

1. 1

   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
2. 2

   Satisfying a wish.

   • 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.

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