unfruitful
adjective
not providing satisfaction; unprofitable.
unfruitfulness
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a word derived from
unfruitful.
Example Sentences
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Times of apparent unfruitfulness do come, times of drought do fall upon us, but they pass, for silently, secretly God works on and on.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
"The willows," he says, "bow themselves to every wind, out of shame for their unfruitfulness."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various
The unfruitfulness of the seasons besides, for several years past, obliges me to think of making some abatements in my rents; which I cannot possibly settle unless I am present.
From The Letters of Pliny the Younger by William Melmoth
Too long has she cursed me by her unfruitfulness.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
Because He wished to impress upon His disciples the terrible danger of unfruitfulness.
From Mother Stories from the New Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the New Testament that Mothers can tell their Children by Anonymous
