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 Inez Bigwood
It was the perfect fruitage of centuries of heavenly-minded men, not the peculiarity of an individual soul.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
These are the autumn colours, the colours of the fruitage that fulfils the promise of the spring.
From The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes
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 Clark S. Beardslee
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