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fruition|fruːˈɪʃən|
Forms: 5–6 fruicion, -yon, fruycion, (5 fruycon), fruyssyon, 6 fruitioun, fruytion, 6– fruition.
[a. OF. fruission, fruition, fruycion, ad. L. fruitiōnem, n. of action f. fruī to enjoy: see fruit n.]
The action of enjoying; enjoyment, pleasurable possession, the pleasure arising from possession. † in the fruition of = in the possession of.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxviii. 75 An aungel hath that knowynge of his creatour by very fruycion. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 86 Contryssyon, Compassyon, and Clennes, And that holy mayde Fruyssyon. 1554Latimer in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xxxv. 98 If we live by hope let us desire the end and fruition of our hope. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 57 We had when so disposed, the fruition of our bookes. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 179 Solyman entred the Toune as conquerour..It is ever since in the fruition of Turkes. c1655A. Sidney Treat. Love in 19th Cent. Jan. (1884) 61 It is very certaine that all desire is for fruition. 1711Addison Spect. No. 256 ⁋7 An Object of Desire placed out of the Possibility of Fruition. 1855Thackeray Newcomes I. 20 Repaid by such a scant holiday and brief fruition. 188319th Cent. May 854 In the contemplation and fruition of the Uncreated Good.
2. Erroneously associated with fruit, in the sense: the state or process of bearing fruit, esp. in phr. to come to (reach, etc.) fruition or full fruition. Freq. transf. and fig. (Now a standard usage.)
(The blunder was not countenanced by 19th-cent. Dictionaries in this country, nor by Webster or Worcester though it was somewhat common both in England and in the U.S.)
1885Harper's Mag. May 906 The greenish nuts, ripened as always from the flowers of the previous year and now in their full fruition. 1889Century Dict., Fruition, a coming into fruit or fulfilment. 1895Standard Dict., Fruition, the bearing of fruit; the yielding of natural or expected results; realization, fulfilment. 1936G. B. Stern Monogram III. 202 The words you have written for publication..should be a fastidiously selected portion of your mind and experience which has slowly grown to fruition and importance. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Aug. 447/3 Sir Edmund Chambers's monumental labours on Shakespeare and the Shakespearian stage were based largely on the resources of the London Library, without which they could never have been brought to fruition, even if they had been attempted. 1959Times 7 July 3/6 This process..has now reached full fruition with the standardization of body shells for a whole range of models [of motor cars]. 1968Times 28 Nov. 14/1 A project for revealing the undiscovered burial chambers thought to exist within the pyramid of Khephren at Giza, Cairo, is shortly to come to fruition. |
