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
We here in America believe our participation in this present war to be only the fruitage of what they planted.
From Lest We Forget World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez
The object of this grafting is to secure immediate fruitage.
From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.
Nearly all its blossoms fell off without fruitage.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
Her gifts only grow to fruitage in the hands of workers.
From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah K.
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