noun
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the process, state, or season of producing fruit
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fruit collectively
Etymology
Origin of fruitage
1570–80; < Middle French fruit ( er ) to bear fruit + -age -age
Example Sentences
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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
Thus soliloquizing, she went from clump to clump of the low bushes till they were bereft of their fruitage.
From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Ellen M. Firebaugh
Above, beneath, around his hapless head, Trees of all kinds delicious fruitage spread.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
Her gifts only grow to fruitage in the hands of workers.
From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton
The blossoms and fruitage of summer are samples of magnetic life from the sun currents, while the decay of winter is a sample of electric repulsion and dissolution.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
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