Crossword clues for fruitfulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fruitful \Fruit"ful\, a. Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n.
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
--Gen. i. 28.
[Nature] By disburdening grows
More fruitful.
--Milton.
The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy.
--Addison.
Syn: Fertile; prolific; productive; fecund; plentiful; rich; abundant; plenteous. See Fertile.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being fruitful; productiveness; fertility; fecundity; exuberant abundance.
WordNet
n. the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth [syn: fecundity] [ant: fruitlessness]
the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination [syn: fecundity]
Usage examples of "fruitfulness".
And it follows from this that the baptized are enlightened by Christ as to the knowledge of truth, and made fruitful by Him with the fruitfulness of good works by the infusion of grace.
The landlady begged the countess to confide her child to her care, and shewed her a bosom which proved her fruitfulness.
Between them and the vision, between the fecund San Joaquin, reeking with fruitfulness, and the millions of Asia crowding toward the verge of starvation, lay the iron-hearted monster of steel and steam, implacable, insatiable, huge--its entrails gorged with the life blood that it sucked from an entire commonwealth, its ever hungry maw glutted with the harvests that should have fed the famished bellies of the whole world of the Orient.
I will offer two illustrative cases, one of which may indicate the fruitfulness of the mechanistic conception in the analysis of complex and apparently mysterious phenomena, the other the nature of the difficulties that have in recent years led to attempts to re-establish the vitalistic view.
There was a fresh growth of fruitfulness: more and more cattle-sheds had to be built, sheepcotes had to be created, and manure came in loads and loads to endow the land with wondrous fertility.
Whether Certain Acts of the Virtues Are Fittingly Set Down As Effects of Baptism, to Wit--Incorporation in Christ, Enlightenment, and Fruitfulness?
On the other hand, intemperate indulgence not only prevents fruitfulness, but ultimately, if persisted in, renders the husband entirely impotent, and undermines and destroys the constitution of the wife.
Greeks consecrated the generative organs as symbols of fruitfulness, 656-m.
Valentinians venerated the generative organs, symbols of fruitfulness, 656-m.
The first Inundation after I came to the throne was just inside the Cubits of Plenty because Nilus gave me the grace of time to prove my fruitfulness.
There was a fresh growth of fruitfulness: more and more cattle-sheds had to be built, sheepcotes had to be created, and manure came in loads and loads to endow the land with wondrous fertility.
All which benefits we first refer to the grace of goodness of God, and next of all unto the bounty of our soil, which he hath endued with so notable and commodious fruitfulness.