Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-RIPE'
UN-RIPE', a.
- Not ripe; not mature; not brought to a state of perfection; as, unripe fruit. Shak.
- Not seasonable; not yet proper. He fix'd his unripe vengeance to defer. Dryden.
- Not prepared; not completed; as, an unripe scheme.
- Too early; as, the unripe death of Dorilaus. [Unusual.] Sidney.
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