fruitage

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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

Then, as Mr. Hamilton Gibson explained it to me, will come the blossoming, and lastly perfect fruitage.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)

A figure of Pan under a fig-tree, with this inscription:— "O thou, to whom Broad-leaved fig-trees even now foredoom Their ripen'd fruitage."

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

Her gifts only grow to fruitage in the hands of workers.

From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah K.

To each ascending form there is an endowment of self-perpetuation by parentage and seed fruitage, which involve the electro-magnetic condition of germ life.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward