Meaning of seedness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or quality of being seed.
   rare, uncountable
2. Seedtime.
   obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“[…] when the seed surrenders, it becomes a tree. Seeds that don’t surrender⟳ their “seedness” only wither up and blow⟳ away.”

“As those that feed⟳ grow⟳ full, as blossoming time That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.”

“[…] there be certaine little wormes breeding in the root, that do eat⟳ it: which happeneth by occasion of much raine falling immediatly after the seednesse, especially, when some sudden heat and drowth ensueth therupon […]”

“[…] how does God admonish us of the value of time, by so constructing things, as that opportunities once let⟳ slip⟳, i.e. time wasted, are never to be redeemed, do what we will to repair⟳ our folly! A seedness suffered to escape⟳, and the harvest⟳ for the year irrecoverable […]”

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