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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fructify .
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Examples
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If the alliance fructifies, it could reconfigure organized retail in India.
Morning News Roundup 2011
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Integrity fructifies the spirit, but deception crumbles it.
2010 July 2010
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Integrity fructifies the spirit, but deception crumbles it.
2010 July 2010
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The sensuality so prevalent appears to me to arise rather from indolence of mind and dull senses, than from an exuberance of life, which often fructifies the whole character when the vivacity of youthful spirits begins to subside into strength of mind.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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Word, through whom the wood fructifies, and the fountains gush forth, and the earth gives "first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear."
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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And just as a cutting from the vine planted in the ground fructifies in its season, or as a corn of wheat falling into the earth and becoming decomposed, rises with manifold increase by the
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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When this request to a people to pray for the preacher is cold, formal and official, it freezes in-stead of fructifies.
The Weapon of Prayer 1835-1913 1991
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Social consciousness, which at first is slight, increases gradually, until it fructifies in social purpose which results in achievement.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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Demeter, the type of the earth, or to Mithras, the symbol of all that fructifies that earth, -- the great object and design of the secret instruction were identical in all places, and the Mysteries constituted a school of religion in which the errors and absurdities of polytheism were revealed to the initiated.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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The woman's vitality is concentrated in the brain and fructifies more in intellectual than in physical forms.
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