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Rootage

noun

Fixedness by or as if by roots.

A developed system of roots. Synonym: root system.

The place where something begins, where it springs into being. Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, source. "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation" , "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River" , "Communism's Russian root"

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"Rootage" Quotes from Famous Books

... forces of the country; he founded American Constitutional Law; he formulated, more tellingly than any one else and for a people whose thought was permeated with legalism, the principles on which the integrity and ordered growth of their Nation have depended. Springing from the twin rootage of Magna Charta and the Declaration of Independence, his judicial statesmanship finds no parallel in the salient features of its achievement outside ...

— John Marshall and the Constitution - A Chronicle of the Supreme Court, Volume 16 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Edward S. Corwin

... Cooper's earliest love. He made it the scene where Deerslayer and Chingachgook rescued Wah-ta-Wah. Its flatiron-shaped pebble-beach jutted out from the lake's west shore and was covered with fine old forest trees garlanded with vines; and from their graveled rootage there gurgled a limpid spring of sweet waters. Then a wild brook came brawling down the hills to find its gentle outlet on the beach. Azalias and wild roses made its shrubbery, while pitcher-plant, moccasin-flower, ...

— James Fenimore Cooper • Mary E. Phillips

... offense, on woman's involvement with sex-passion; he finds that love, in a Wessex setting, has wider range than has been awarded it in previous study of sex relations. And he has not hesitated to depict its rootage in the flesh; not overlooking its rise in the spirit to noblest heights. And it is this un-Anglo-Saxon-like comprehension of feminine humanity that makes him so fair to the sinning woman who trusts to her ruin or proves what is called weak because of the generous movement of her blood. No one ...

— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton

Words linked to "Rootage" : derivation, trail head, head, provenience, scheme, birthplace, point source, wellhead, place of origin, headspring, provenance, point, system, cradle, fountainhead, point of departure, home, immobility, stationariness, trailhead, fixedness, jumping-off place, origin, wellspring, headwater, spring