unmellowed
adjEtymology From un- + mellowed.
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Not mellowed.
- Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that’s his name, Made use and fair advantage of his days; His years but young, but his experience old; His head unmellow’d, but his judgment ripe;c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
- I was afraid she would think it queer of me to give her such a present. And yet somehow it seemed to me that it was better than something brand new and unmellowed—that old book which father had loved and which I loved.1906 December 15, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Clorinda’s Gifts”, in The Epworth Herald, volume 17, number 29, page 732:
2 more examples
- The room gives off an air of clean spareness. The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed.1953, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, New York: Bantam, published 1959, act 1, page 1:
- ‘What do you think he meant, moron?’ asked Dover, apparently quite unmellowed by Mrs Boyle’s medicinal whisky.1970, Joyce Porter, chapter 10, in Dover Strikes Again, New York: David McKay, published 1973, page 154: