unfruitfulness

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The unfruitfulness of the seasons besides, for several years past, obliges me to think of making some abatements in my rents; which I cannot possibly settle unless I am present.

From The Letters of Pliny the Younger by Melmoth, William

A day was set apart “to humble themselves before God, for all their unfruitfulness under the means of grace enjoyed in the old meeting-house, and to bless the building of another one.”

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

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)

"The willows," he says, "bow themselves to every wind, out of shame for their unfruitfulness."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various

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