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fruitfully, adv.|ˈfruːtfʊlɪ|
[f. fruitful + -ly2.]
In a fruitful manner.
1. So as to produce good results; with good effect, beneficially, profitably, edifyingly.
c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xviii. 20 Euery tyme þei spendid fruytfully. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxv. §19 Our very nature doth hardly yeeld to destroy that which may bee fruitefully kept. 1643J. Burroughes Exp. Hosea ix. 311 That you may be helped fruitfully to read much Scripture. 1658C. Cartwright (title) A Practical and Polemical Commentary..on the Whole Fifteenth Psalm. Wherein the Text is learnedly and fruitfully explained. 1894Advance (Chicago) 29 Apr., It is the mission of others to illustrate and to show how to think, wisely, deeply, fruitfully.
†2.
a. Copiously, fully.
b. In such a manner as to be prolific. Obs. rare.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. ii. 73 La. You vnderstand me. Clo. Most fruitfully. 1605― Lear iv. vi. 270 If your will want not, time and place will be fruitfully offer'd. a1684Earl of Roscommon Virgil's Sixth Eclogue 45 How scatter'd Seeds of Sea, and Air, and Earth, And purer Fire..did fruitfully unite. |