Websters Dictionary 1828
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Barrenness
BAR'RENNESS, adverb 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.
First Occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Psalms 107:34