unfruitfulness
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Times of apparent unfruitfulness do come, times of drought do fall upon us, but they pass, for silently, secretly God works on and on.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)
Ster′iliser, anything which sterilises; Steril′ity, quality of being sterile: unfruitfulness, barrenness, in regard to reproduction.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Sometimes the rootstock will force to the top too much growth, which is likely to bring about unfruitfulness.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association
That great father of the Church, Origen, says: "It is demons which produce famine, unfruitfulness, corruption of the air, and pestilence."
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
Too long has she cursed me by her unfruitfulness.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
