Etymology
Origin of rootage
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
Nothing is more astounding, on their own showing, than the ignorance of the Fathers about the nature, the significance, the descent of Gnosticism, and its rootage in the remotest past.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.
Its flatiron-shaped pebble-beach jutted out from the lake's west shore and was covered with fine old forest trees garlanded with vines; and from their graveled rootage there gurgled a limpid spring of sweet waters.
From James Fenimore Cooper by Phillips, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)
We shall find our rootage in the soil.
From The Holy Earth by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
Sturdy oaks and mountain pines that had weathered every storm for fifty years, were torn up from their firm rootage.
From A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
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