"wish-fulfilling" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "more wish-fulfilling",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wish-fulfilling",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma - Volume 1, page 317",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism, page 408",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, The Great Kagyu Masters",
          "text": "The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Able to grant wishes."
      ],
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          "grant",
          "grant"
        ],
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          "wish",
          "wish"
        ]
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Dionysios Anapolitanos, Aristeidēs Baltas, Stavroula Tsinorema, Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science, page 273",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, Paul Jenner, The Contemporary American Novel in Context",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Dermot Gilvary, Darren J. N. Middleton, Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene",
          "text": "This is what we mean by wish-fulfilling hallucination.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Satisfying a wish."
      ],
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}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wish-fulfilling",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wish-fulfilling",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma - Volume 1, page 317",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism, page 408",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, The Great Kagyu Masters",
          "text": "The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Able to grant wishes."
      ],
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          "grant",
          "grant"
        ],
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          "wish",
          "wish"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Dionysios Anapolitanos, Aristeidēs Baltas, Stavroula Tsinorema, Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science, page 273",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, Paul Jenner, The Contemporary American Novel in Context",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Dermot Gilvary, Darren J. N. Middleton, Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene",
          "text": "This is what we mean by wish-fulfilling hallucination.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Satisfying a wish."
      ],
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        ]
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "wishfulfilling"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wish-fulfilling"
}