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fruition

/fɹuˈɪʃən/

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What does fruition mean?

noun

  1. The fulfillment of something worked for.
  2. The enjoyment derived from a possession.
  3. The condition of bearing fruit.

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/fɹuˈɪʃən/

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Only her old friend’s flowers seemed to belong to this fruition of old-blossoming hopes which he had once shared.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of the IslandProject Gutenberg ebook #51
New hopes were awakened by this change of command, which, though slow of fruition, were not finally to be disappointed.
William Gilmore SimmsThe Life of Francis MarionProject Gutenberg ebook #843
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And, of his ancestors what fruition or taste of sport did he reserve to himself, who never went hawking without seven thousand falconers?
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
Experiences are had under conditions of such constraint that they throw little or no light upon the normal course of an experience to its fruition.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852
This would constitute three cycles of forty-nine years each, the first corresponding to youth, the second to maturity, and the third to fruition.
Henry LindlahrNature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & CureProject Gutenberg ebook #4273