Definition of Rootages

1. rootage [n] - See also: rootage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rootages

root rot
root rots
root sheath
root sprout
root system
root up
root vegetable
root vegetables
root vole
root voles
root word
root words
rootage
rootages (current term)
rootball
rootbeer
rootbeers
rootbound
rootcap
rootcaps
rooted
rooted(p)
rootedly
rootedness
rootednesses
rooter
rooter skunk

Literary usage of Rootages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Classified Models of Speech Composition: Ninety-five Complete Speeches by James Milton O'Neill (1921)
"... not the rootages of knowledge. Knowledge is merely, in its uses, the evidence of character, it does not produce character. Some of the most learned of ..."

2. American Oratory of To-day edited by Edwin Du Bois Shurter (1910)
"... the only lasting basis is that moral basis in which all true intellectual life has its rootage and sustenance, and those are the rootages of character, ..."

3. American Oratory of Today by Edwin Du Bois Shurter (1910)
"... the only lasting basis is that moral basis in which all true intellectual life has its rootage and sustenance, and those are the rootages of character, ..."

4. Collections of the Maine Historical Society by Maine Historical Society (1906)
"... life will show the deep rootages of ancient custom and local habit, or to give him direction along the avenue where a new nation has but just passed. ..."

5. Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson by Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (1918)
"You forget the wide rootages of everything when you boost some particular region. There are dangers which probably you all understand in the mere practice ..."

6. Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson by Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (1918)
"You forget the wide rootages of everything when you boost some particular region. There are dangers which probably you all understand in the mere practice ..."

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