Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being fruitful; productiveness; fertility; fecundity; exuberant abundance.
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- noun The state or quality of being
fruitful ;productiveness ;fertility ;fecundity ; exuberantabundance .
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- noun the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- noun the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
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Examples
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Note, Christ knows beforehand who will bring forth gospel fruits in the use of gospel means; because our fruitfulness is all the work of his own hands, and known unto God are all his works.
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Further fruitfulness is the blessed reward of forward fruitfulness.
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The purging of fruitful branches, in order to their greater fruitfulness, is the care and work of the great husbandman, for his own glory.
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The land of Canaan, which was once the glory of all lands for fruitfulness, is said to be, at this day, a fruitless, useless, worthless spot of ground, as was foretold, Deut. xxix.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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And the reason of this extraordinary fruitfulness is because their waters issued out of the sanctuary; it is not to be ascribed to any thing in themselves, but to the continual supplies of divine grace, with which they are watered every moment (Isa.xxvii. 3); for, whoever planted them, it was that which gave the increase.
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Professor, solemnly examine yourself; 'in proportion to your fruitfulness will be your blessedness.'
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Here it is crucial for him to find “the right definitions”; and this involves not just basic adequacy, but also desiderata such as fruitfulness, generality, simplicity, and “purity”, i.e., the elimination of aspects “foreign” to the case at hand.
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There is in hospitals an opportunity of extraordinary importance, a field of great fruitfulness which is largely neglected.
Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions
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But it is more likely that it has direct reference to the wind which accompanies the rain storm rather than to "fruitfulness," as Seler supposes.
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Thus you may perceive the infinite fruitfulness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
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