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  • verb Present participle of fructify.

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Examples

  • The gentlest of the winds, Zephyrus is known as the fructifying wind, the messenger of spring.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Horatio Cl 2010

  • The scent was overripe, oversweet, mortifying and fructifying.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The scent was overripe, oversweet, mortifying and fructifying.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The scent was overripe, oversweet, mortifying and fructifying.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I find convincing the argument that there was some intellectual activity in non-Muslim lands for a few centuries after the initial conquest, as long as the Christians and Jews (in the Middle East) were still a significant and fructifying influence, and that when they ceased to be, such activity came to an abrupt end.

    Scary Laban 2006

  • These sources were the printed cases; they expressed, in manifold dress, the few, everevolving and fructifying principles which constituted the genius of the common law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • These sources were the printed cases; they expressed, in manifold dress, the few, everevolving and fructifying principles which constituted the genius of the common law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • These sources were the printed cases; they expressed, in manifold dress, the few, everevolving and fructifying principles which constituted the genius of the common law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • This heat is likewise in plants, as appears by their increasing, fructifying, &c., though not so easily perceived.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “The Kirk of Scotland was shorn of its beams, and deprived of its full artillery and banners of authority; but still it contained zealous and fructifying pastors, attentive congregations, and, with all her spots and blemishes, the like of this Kirk was nowhere else to be seen upon earth.”

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

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