unfledged

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This is the hasty conclusion of monasteries Hasty Well--unfledged saints fall.... Their growth becomes self-centred.

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  1. adjective Not having the feathers necessary to fly. Used of a young bird.
  2. adjective Inexperienced, immature, or untried.

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  • And he did this, desiring to put in a word for his unfledged offspring. —  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
  • The tree was a dead dry one and rather difficult to climb, but a peon of mine went up and reported five young ones unfledged, the nest-hole being 6 inches deep, and the opening, which was originally a large one, and probably caused by water wearing into the site of a broken branch, narrowed by an edging of clay. —  The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
  • This is the hasty conclusion of monasteries Hasty Well--unfledged saints fall.... Their growth becomes self-centred. —  Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel
  • The acting of the children of two or three of the chief choirs had become the rage Footnote 3: Eyases_--unfledged hawks Footnote 4: Children cry out rather than speak on the stage Footnote 5: 'cry out beyond dispute'--_unquestionably_; 'cry out and no mistake.' —  The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623
  • At the end of that time Fate cast him upon the Mount of the Bereft Mother, where he landed, giddy and tottering like a chick unfledged, and at the last of his strength for hunger and thirst; but, finding there streams flowing and birds on the branches cooing and fruit-laden trees in clusters and singly growing, he ate of the fruits and drank of the rills. —  Arabian nights. English
 

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/ənˈflɛdʒd/
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