[f. FULFIL v. + -MENT.] The action or an act or process of fulfilling; accomplishment, performance, completion. (Not in Johnson, 1755.)
1775. in Ash.
1777. Blair, Serm., I. v. 141. With what entire confidence ought we to wait for the fulfilment of all his other promises, in their due time.
17861805. J. H. Tooke, Purley (1860), 586. Gage. By which a man is bound to certain fulfilments.
1830. Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., I. iii. (1851), 42. There are consequences and fulfilments of the laws of nature.
1849. G. P. R. James, The Woodman, ii. While exacting a fulfilment of all prescribed duties from her nuns.
1891. Law Rep., Weekly Notes, 76/2. The fulfilment of the condition literally became impossible.