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
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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
To each ascending form there is an endowment of self-perpetuation by parentage and seed fruitage, which involve the electro-magnetic condition of germ life.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
The black clouds are even now gathering upon the fringes of the sky, and the mellow season of the fruitage ends.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Corn fills her plains, and fruitage loads her trees.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
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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