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Oh, yes, they had seen it, each brother and sister beneath the sound of his voice tonight, and they had seen the destruction caused by a so lamentable unripeness!

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

His face had a quality of inlaid unripeness.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Crude′ness; Crud′ity, rawness: unripeness: that which is crude.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Revolutionism in the French sense bears, as I have already said, the mark of unripeness.

From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Sombart, Werner

Inconstancy is not justified by natural law, for it means unripeness of soul.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.