Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being infecund; absence of fecundity; unfruitfulness; barrenness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.

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  • noun Lack of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.

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Examples

  • His declaration stood in spite of the recorded infecundity of abstinence-only programs in controlling the spread of HIV.

    Michael Mungai: The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa Michael Mungai 2011

  • His declaration stood in spite of the recorded infecundity of abstinence-only programs in controlling the spread of HIV.

    Michael Mungai: The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa Michael Mungai 2011

  • His declaration stood in spite of the recorded infecundity of abstinence-only programs in controlling the spread of HIV.

    Michael Mungai: The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa Michael Mungai 2011

  • His declaration stood in spite of the recorded infecundity of abstinence-only programs in controlling the spread of HIV.

    Michael Mungai: The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa Michael Mungai 2011

  • His declaration stood in spite of the recorded infecundity of abstinence-only programs in controlling the spread of HIV.

    Michael Mungai: The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa Michael Mungai 2011

  • So I urge you to keep your child out of kindergarten, because kindergarten will only lead to first grade and then thegrim sequence of grade after grade begins and takes its inexorable toll on the mind born fertile but gradually numbed by the pedants who impose on the captive child the flotsam of their own infecundity.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Dymphna 2007

  • So I urge you to keep your child out of kindergarten, because kindergarten will only lead to first grade and then thegrim sequence of grade after grade begins and takes its inexorable toll on the mind born fertile but gradually numbed by the pedants who impose on the captive child the flotsam of their own infecundity.

    Rock on, Father Rutler! Dymphna 2007

  • Gymnasium, as I have described above; and the Circles are too much disposed to acquiesce in infecundity as a Law of the superior development.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • Revolutions cannot always be suppressed by slaughter, and that Nature, in sentencing the Circles to infecundity, has condemned them to ultimate failure — “and herein,” he says, “I see a fulfilment of the great Law of all worlds, that while the wisdom of Man thinks it is working one thing, the wisdom of Nature constrains it to work another, and quite a different and far better thing.”

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • It is only that, in seeking to compensate himself for his infecundity, he has fallen into the deep sea of preciosity.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

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