fœcundity

English

Noun

fœcundity (plural not attested)

1. Obsolete form of fecundity.
   • 1759, Thomas Hale, A Compleat Body of Husbandry, page 55:

     As this fœcundity is owing to the air, it will be obtained only in those parts of a field thus prepared to receive it, as are exposed to the air.

   • 1762, John Ray, The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, pages 65–66:

     And for the security of such species as are produc'd only by seed, it hath endued all seed with a lasting vitality, that so if by reason of excessive cold, or drought or any other accident, it happen not to germinate the first year, it will conintue its fœcundity, I do not say two or three, nor six or seven, but even twenty or thirty years; and when the impediment is remov'd, the earth in fit case, and the season proper, spring up, bear fruit, and continue its species.

   • 1838, Ralph Cudworth, John Allen, A Treatise of Freewill, page 51:

     So that the Son begotten thus from eternity by the essential fœcundity of the Father and his overflowing perfection, (which is no necessity imposed upon him, nor yet a blind and stupid nature, as that of fire burning or the sun shining), this divine apaugasma, or outshining splendour of of God the Father hath no precarious, but a necessary existence, and is undestroyable.