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Definition of Fulness
1. n. See Fullness.
Definition of Fulness
1. Noun. Being full; completeness. ¹
2. Noun. The degree to which a space is full. ¹
3. Noun. (''fig.'') The degree to which fate has become known. ¹
4. Noun. (bodybuilding): A measure of the degree to which a muscle has increased in size parallel to the axis of its contraction. A full muscle fills more of the space along the part of the body where it is connected. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fulness
1. fullness [n -ES] - See also: fullness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulness
Literary usage of Fulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"I had no belief that the fulness of life could be found in a human breast, * * *
but if I could press a wife," &c. &c. A certain Don Juan sings a song which ..."
2. The Lancet (1842)
"I. Of Plethora, or fulness.— This cause of the apoplectic or hémiplégie seizure
was that which had received most attention, or rather it was that ..."
3. Gems of Chinese Literature by Herbert Allen Giles (1884)
"fulness AND DECAY.* Alas for the fulness and decay of human greatness! Though these
are called the appointments of Heaven, truly they are the handiwork of ..."
4. Sermons by Hugh Blair (1822)
"Thou wilt shew me the path of life : In thy presence fe fulness of joy ; at thy
right hand there are pleasures for evermore.— PSALM xvi. 11. ..."
5. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1829)
"The glory or fulness of his understanding is his knowledge. The internal glory
and fulness of God, having its special seat in his w«7/, is his holiness and ..."
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