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Webster 1913 Edition
Fertility
Fer-til′i-ty
,Noun.
[L.
fertilitas
: cf. F. fertilité
.] The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness;
“fertility of resource.” as, the
. fertility
of soil, or of imaginationE. Everett.
And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps
Corrupting in its own
Corrupting in its own
fertility
. Shakespeare
Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste
More rich than other climes’
More rich than other climes’
fertility
. Byron.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fertility
FERTIL'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit in abundance; as the fertility of land, ground, soil, fields and meadows.2.
Richness; abundant resources; fertile invention; as the fertility of genius, of fancy or imagination.