wish-fulfilling

English

Alternative forms

• wishfulfilling

Adjective

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

1. 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

2. 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.