barrenness

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Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility of taste; man, indeed, if I may say so, is "the barren animal."

From Beyond Good and Evil by Zimmern, Helen

Barrenness is one of its most common consequences.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel

After they have had several Children, they grow strangely out of Shape in their Bodies; As for Barrenness, I never knew any of their Women, that have not Children when marry'd.

From A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc. by Lawson, John

Barrenness in the personal life is the price many a man has paid for public honours.

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)

Barrenness is a deprivation of the life and power which ought to be in the seed to procreate and propagate; for which end men and women were made.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle