What is the meaning of rootage?

noun

  • Fixedness by or as if by roots.
    • usage: "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
  • A developed system of roots.
  • The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
    • usage: "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
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