unmellowed

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ mellowed.

Adjective

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unmellowed (comparative more unmellowed, superlative most unmellowed)

  1. Not mellowed.
    • 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]:
      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 December 15, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Clorinda’s Gifts”, in The Epworth Herald, volume 17, number 29, page 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[1], New York: Bantam, published 1959, act 1, page 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, chapter 10, in Dover Strikes Again[2], New York: David McKay, published 1973, page 154:
      ‘What do you think he meant, moron?’ asked Dover, apparently quite unmellowed by Mrs Boyle’s medicinal whisky.