noun
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the process, state, or season of producing fruit
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fruit collectively
Etymology
Origin of fruitage
1570–80; < Middle French fruit ( er ) to bear fruit + -age -age
Example Sentences
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But if religion is to have its full value as a 'last resort' in times of peril or affliction, it must have deep rootage, broad leafage and ample fruitage in the normal circumstances of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her gifts only grow to fruitage in the hands of workers.
From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah K.
The Book of Job and the Psalms of David are the grand autumnal fruitage of that vineyard of worship in which Enoch and Abraham were toilers in the early springtime of our world.
From Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood by Pollard, Josephine
Nay, climb— Quit trunk, branch, leaf and flower—reach, rest sublime Where fruitage ripens in the blaze of day.”
From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald
In truth this affinity of Lincoln with his neighbor in need was the very fruitage of the fortune of his life.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
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