barrenness

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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 is oftentimes the result of displacement of the womb or other unfavorable conditions in the female.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

Of the Green-Sickness in Virgins, with its causes, signs and cures; together with the chief occasions of Barrenness in Women, and the Means to remove the Cause, and render them fruitful.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

Barrenness is a deprivation of the life and power which ought to be in the seed to procreate and propagate; for which end men and women were made.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

Barrenness in the personal life is the price many a man has paid for public honours.

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)