unfruitfulness

Example Sentences

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A day was set apart “to humble themselves before God, for all their unfruitfulness under the means of grace enjoyed in the old meeting-house, and to bless the building of another one.”

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

Nothing in divine or human ordinances seemed hidden from him; he even foresaw the unfruitfulness of the land many years before it came.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

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 Melmoth, William

In financial matters he had little experience or authority; he had to depend on his colleagues and he complained of their unfruitfulness.

From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by Headlam, James Wycliffe

It was a waste place of terrible unfruitfulness.

From The Odds And Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)