fruitage

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  1. noun The process, time, or condition of bearing fruit.
  2. noun A yield of fruit.
  3. noun A result or an effect.

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  • I have sought to uncover the roots from which so rich a fruitage issued and disclose the forces which found so magnificent an expression. —  The Life of Sir William Hartley, ebook, etext
  • God bless the home and God bless its best fruitage--the child THE CHURCH Thus the home--God's simple yet mighty agent in His great work of developing the human race. —  On the Firing Line in Education
  • The author teaches that every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage, and that true success follows every right step. —  Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
  • The chance remark of a sweetheart, "I hear that you are a coward," may water a seed that shall sprout and bloom and flourish, and ended in producing a surprising fruitage--in the fields of war. —  What Is Man? and Other Essays
  • Without entering at all into the history of its fruitage, the life and death of the blossom itself is always an eventful romance, which must be completely told, if well. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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  1. Formerly also frutage; from Old French fruitage, from fruit, fruit, + -age.
 

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