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Barrenness

BAR'RENNESS, adv. The quality of not producing its kind; want of the power of conception; applied to animals. 2. Unfruitfulness; sterility, infertility. The quality of not producing at all, or in small quantit...

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Meaning

BAR'RENNESS, adv. The quality of not producing its kind; want of the power of conception; applied to animals.

2. Unfruitfulness; sterility, infertility. The quality of not producing at all, or in small quantities; as the barrenness of soil.

3. Want of invention; want of the power of producing any thing new; applied to the mind.

4. Want of matter; scantiness; as the barrenness of a cause.

5. Defect of emotion, sensibility or fervency; as the barrenness of devotion.

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