barrenness

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Barrenness and artificiality are the two traits of this society, the more marked because it is more complete, and, in this one, pushed to extreme, because it has attained to supreme refinement.

From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John

Barrenness and Sterility When a cow persistently fails to breed and bear young, she is said to be barren.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

Many Authors have written on the Vanity of the Creature, and represented the Barrenness of every thing in this World, and its Incapacity of producing any solid or substantial Happiness.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Barrenness was not the fault of the Father of English poetry; and amid the profusion of images which he presented, his imitator had only the task of rejecting or selecting.

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George

I would add, that the description of Barrenness, in his verses to Pope, was borrowed from Secundus; but lately searching for the passage, which I had formerly read, I could not find it.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel