Not having feathers; (of a bird) not yet having developed its wings and feathers and become able to fly.
c. 1609, (w), (w), Act III, Scene 3http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=cymbeline&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
- (..) we, poor unfledged,
- Have never wing’d from view o’ the nest, nor know not
- What air’s from home.
1818, (w), w:Persuasion (novel)|Persuasion, Chapter 21,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/105/105-h/105-h.htm
- “The little Durands were there, I conclude,” said she, “with their mouths open to catch the music, like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed. They never miss a concert.”
1854, (w), (w), “The Bean-Field,”http://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm
- The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
1869, (w), (w), Part 2, Chapter 28,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/514/514-h/514-h.htm
- “Boy and girl. Aren’t they beauties?” said the proud papa, beaming upon the little red squirmers as if they were unfledged angels.
puhekieltä Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.
c. 1610, (w), (w), Act I, Scene 2,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=winterstale&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
- Temptations have since then been born to’s; for
- In those unfledged days was my wife a girl;
- Your precious self had then not cross’d the eyes
- Of my young play-fellow.
1792, (w), (w), Section 5.5,http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3420/pg3420-images.html
- Besides, it is not possible to give a young person a just view of life; he must have struggled with his own passions before he can estimate the force of the temptation which betrayed his brother into vice. Those who are entering life, and those who are departing, see the world from such very different points of view, that they can seldom think alike, unless the unfledged reason of the former never attempted a solitary flight.
1848, (w), “Si Descendero in Infernum, Ades” in Poems. Second Series, Cambridge: G. Nichols, p. 38,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008434176
- Yet they who watch your God-compelled return
- May see your happy perihelion burn
- Where the calm sun his unfledged planets broods.
1946, (w), (w), Chapter 4,http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601281.txt
- Fantasy, sheer fantasy? Perhaps! But when we think of time and of eternity, intelligence reels. The shrewdest questions that we can ask about them are perhaps falsely shaped, being but flutterings of the still unfledged human mentality.
puhekieltä inexperienced Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
1898, (w), The Californians, Book I, Chapter 23,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21903/21903-8.txt
- He had long since determined that Magdaléna should marry no one of the sons of his moneyed friends, nor yet any of the sprouting lawyers or unfledged business youths who made up the masculine half of the younger fashionable set.
1915, (w), (w), Chapter 37,http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks14/1403281h.html
- Aunt Jamesina had a proper respect for the cloth even in the case of an unfledged parson.