expletion

== English == === Etymology === From Latin expletio (“a satisfying”). See expletive. === Noun === expletion (obsolete) accomplishment; fulfillment (archaic, linguistics) An expletive or interjection === References === “expletion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.