[f. FULFIL v. + -MENT.] The action or an act or process of fulfilling; accomplishment, performance, completion. (Not in Johnson, 1755.)

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1775.  in Ash.

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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.

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1786–1805.  J. H. Tooke, Purley (1860), 586. Gage. By which a man is bound to certain fulfilments.

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1830.  Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., I. iii. (1851), 42. There are consequences and fulfilments of the laws of nature.

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1849.  G. P. R. James, The Woodman, ii. While exacting a fulfilment of all prescribed duties from her nuns.

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1891.  Law Rep., Weekly Notes, 76/2. The fulfilment of the condition literally became impossible.

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