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unˈripeness (un-1 12.)
a1340Hampole Psalter cxviii. 147, I bifore come in vn⁓rypnes and i cried. 1548Elyot, Immaturitas, vnrypenesse, to muche haste in dooyng a thynge before the tyme. 1593Sidney's Arcadia v. (1922) II. 199 The unripenesse of theyr age. 1625Bacon Ess., Delays (Arb.) 525 The Ripenesse, or Vnripenesse of the Occasion (as we said) must euer be well weighed. 1678Marvell Growth Popery 42 In this state of uncertainty and unripeness, the House Adjourned. 1783Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 244 The unripeness of the barley. 1844Price in Stanley Arnold I. iv. 196 The unripeness of England for a free and unfettered discussion. 1886C. Scott Sheep-farming 46 Let the same conditions or unripeness be present in any kind of roots, and their effects will be much the same. |