fruition

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FRUI'TION, noun [from Latin fruor, to use or enjoy.] Use accompanied with pleasure, corporeal or intellectual; enjoyment; the pleasure derived from use or possession. If the affliction is on his body, his appetites are weakened, and capacity of fruition destroyed.
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