Etymology
Origin of rootage
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But if religion is to have its full value as a 'last resort' in times of peril or affliction, it must have deep rootage, broad leafage and ample fruitage in the normal circumstances of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its flatiron-shaped pebble-beach jutted out from the lake's west shore and was covered with fine old forest trees garlanded with vines; and from their graveled rootage there gurgled a limpid spring of sweet waters.
From James Fenimore Cooper by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Phillips
When the conditions which produced the popular ballads become clear to the imagination, their depth of rootage, not only in the community life but in the community love, becomes also clear.
From The Book of Old English Ballads by Hamilton Wright Mabie
From this rootage flows the vitality which imparts immortality to its noblest products, and which supplies an educational element unrivalled in its enriching and enlarging quality.
From Books and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The rootage of literature in the spiritual nature and experience of the race is the fundamental fact not only in the history of this rich and splendid art, but in its relation to culture.
From Books and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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