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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7 words match “STERILITY”

STERILITY n. 2 definitions
The quality or condition of being sterile.
AGENESIC a.
Characterized by sterility; infecund.
AGENNESIS n.
Impotence; sterility.
BARRENNESS n.
The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.
IMPOTENCE; IMPOTENCY n.
Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.
INFECUNDITY n.
Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.
REASON n.
ans of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view. When anything is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not, in reason, to doubt of i…