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
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 Warder, George Woodward
The carved wreaths of flowers and leaves and fruitage which adorn these cases deserve careful notice.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
Every plant and every animal is but the fruitage of the inherent life that pervades the material world.
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
It was the fruitage of an ample season's growth.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
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