Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being unripe; want of ripeness; immaturity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being unripe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state or property of being
unripe
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Examples
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They pluck off, one by one, grapes that have stayed green, so that not even a hint of unripeness will mar their wine.
Merlot for Snobs 2005
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They pluck off, one by one, grapes that have stayed green, so that not even a hint of unripeness will mar their wine.
Merlot for Snobs 2005
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He might before have speculated about the unripeness of Germany for the revolution he envisioned,but now, in the heat of the moment, he was as ready as Lincoln or Alexander had been to act.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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He might before have speculated about the unripeness of Germany for the revolution he envisioned,but now, in the heat of the moment, he was as ready as Lincoln or Alexander had been to act.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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He might before have speculated about the unripeness of Germany for the revolution he envisioned,but now, in the heat of the moment, he was as ready as Lincoln or Alexander had been to act.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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They pluck off, one by one, grapes that have stayed green, so that not even a hint of unripeness will mar their wine.
Merlot for Snobs 2005
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The ripeness, or unripeness, of the occasion (as we said) must ever be well weighed; and generally it is good, to commit the beginnings of an great actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes, and the ends to
The Essays 2007
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In short, I am a very pretty green fruit, with all the charm of unripeness.
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He might before have speculated about the unripeness of Germany for the revolution he envisioned,but now, in the heat of the moment, he was as ready as Lincoln or Alexander had been to act.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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He might before have speculated about the unripeness of Germany for the revolution he envisioned,but now, in the heat of the moment, he was as ready as Lincoln or Alexander had been to act.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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