unmellowed
English
Etymology
un- + mellowed
Adjective
unmellowed (comparative more unmellowed, superlative most unmellowed)
- Not mellowed.
- c. 1590–1591, 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 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
- 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;
- 1906, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Clorinda’s Gifts” in The Epworth Herald, Volume 17, Number 29, 15 December, 1906, p. 732,
- 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.
- 1953, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, New York: Bantam, 1959, Act One, p. 1,
- The room gives off an air of clean spareness. The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed.
- 1970, Joyce Porter, Dover Strikes Again, New York: David McKay, 1973, Chapter Ten, p. 154,
- ‘What do you think he meant, moron?’ asked Dover, apparently quite unmellowed by Mrs Boyle’s medicinal whisky.
-