Barren
Barren adjective - Producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation.
Cast off and barren are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cast off" instead an adjective "Barren".
Nearby Words: barrenness, barrenly
Cast off
Cast off verb - Get rid of.
Both terms in one sentence
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Rhys, meanwhile, is forced by politics to cast off his wife for one who isn't barren and his cast-off wife is given to a widower with so many children, he needs a wife to mother them but doesn't need any more heirs.
Source: Law of Inverse Fertility
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