Meanings
comparative more fruitfully · superlative most fruitfully
- In a fruitful manner; productively.
Corn, wine, and oil, are wanting to this ground, In which our countries fruitfully abound
1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC, (please specify the page)3 more examples
Then doth the Cross of Christ work fruitfully Within our hearts, when we love harmlessly That Cross's pictures much, and with more care That Cross's children, which our crosses are.
c. 1633, John Donne, The CrossThe soldiers coming to out-process were not here to train, and hours needed to be fruitfully filled through the sometimes tedious process of leaving the army.
2014, John O'Brien, A History of Fort Campbell, →ISBNI will argue that Pet Sematary and The Tommyknockers can fruitfully be read as bioconservative fables, thematic enactments of the kind of worst-case scenarios postulated by theorists such as Bill McKibben, Leon Kass, and Francis Fukuyama.
2016, Jacob M. Held, Stephen King and Philosophy, page 48
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