feracityn.
/fəˈrasɪti/ rare.
The quality of being feracious; fruitfulness, productiveness. † Of a person: The profit he makes.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [noun]
plenteoustea1382
fatnessc1420
feracityc1420
fruitfulheadc1450
fruitfulness1509
exuberancy1649
unbarrenness1656
efficience1669
teemingness1674
prolificity1718
generativeness1727
productiveness1727
prolificacy1756
productivity1818
fructuousness1855
teeming1856
plenteousness1864
populousness1881
fruition1885
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun]
earningeOE
issuea1325
lucrec1380
lucre of gainc1386
return1419
feracityc1420
revenue1427
vantagec1430
afframing1440
revenue1440
availc1449
proventc1451
provenuec1487
rent1513
fardel1523
chevisance1535
gains1546
commodity1577
proceed1578
increasal1601
benefit1606
endowment1615
gaininga1631
superlucration1683
profit1697
bunce1706
making1837
bunt1851
plunder1851
yield1877
recovery1931
earner1970
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > quality or capacity of
feracityc1420
fecundity1447
fertility1490
virility1598
fruitfulness1624
Priapus1637
procreativeness1655
breedingness1674
prolificness1678
prolificalness1699
polytoky1702
breediness1753
prolificacy1756
philoprogenitiveness1842
propagability1853
teemfulness1855
teeming1856
progenitiveness1868
fecundability1926
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. xii. 68 [The olive] wagged with wynde of feracitee.
1448 MS. Records Grocers Company, Facsimile Copy 292 That eny seche brocour..Shulde be contributory to the werkes of the place. Euery Brocour after his feraucite.
1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes 134 The earth, cursed..into a..natural feracity of briars and thorns.
1793 J. Beattie Elem. Moral Sci. II. iv. i. 517 Such writers, instead of brittle, would say fragile, instead of fruitfulness, feracity.
1822 E. Nathan Langreath III. 290 The lack of feracity arising from the lower orders becoming desidiose.
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