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  • adjective Not graduated.

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un- +‎ graduated

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Examples

  • At any rate, I was so glad to see her that, being still ungraduated in the steps of rank (though beginning to like a good footing there), I ran up and took her by both hands, and fetched her out of her grand courtesy and into a low chair.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Cambridge, or breaking away from those classic bounds ungraduated, entered the Inns of Court, according to the custom of their day and their condition.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

  • The will and the emotions, ductile as they will never be again, are ready to make full and ungraduated response to any genuine appeal to enthusiasm.

    The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

  • Further, a complete and ungraduated response to stimulus -- an

    The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

  • Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.

    Great Sea Stories Various 1897

  • At any rate, I was so glad to see her that, being still ungraduated in the steps of rank (though beginning to like a good footing there), I ran up and took her by both hands, and fetched her out of her grand courtesy and into a low chair.

    Erema — My Father's Sin 1862

  • Thick, black layers of shapeless cloud hung over the whole firmament, save at the western point; and here lay a streak of pale, yellow light, enclosed on all sides by the firm, ungraduated, irregular edges of the masses of gloomy vapour around it.

    Antonina Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

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