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ungrown

  • a word derived from grown.
    grown
    adjective
    advanced in growth.

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To-day Love ’s mute, but time hath sown A soul in her to match thine own, Though yet ungrown.

From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Edmund Henry Garrett

Though joy be done with and grief be vain, Time shall not sever us wholly in twain; Earth is not spoilt for a single shower; But the rain has ruined the ungrown corn.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Were not the other children, like the white image of Sleep, especially the naked child Alcmaeon, of ivory? with Alcestis and Helen, and that one of the Dioscuri whose beard was still ungrown?

From Greek Studies: a Series of Essays by Walter Pater

It is in the scenes of vehement passion, of ardour and of agony, that we feel the comparative weakness of a yet ungrown hand, the tentative uncertain grasp of a stripling giant. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse

I wonder how people can toil and deny themselves for ungrown children!

From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr