unfruitfulness

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The desire for children is natural both to men and women, and in the home, as in universal nature, unfruitfulness and barrenness are a great misfortune.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

It was a waste place of terrible unfruitfulness.

From The Odds And Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

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

Again, too much very young and too much old wood are causes of unfruitfulness.

From Success with Small Fruits by Roe, Edward Payson

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