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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, cxviii. 147. I bifore come in vnrypnes and i cried.

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1548.  Elyot, Immaturitas, vnrypenesse, to muche haste in dooyng a thynge before the tyme.

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1593.  Sidney’s Arcadia, V. (1922), II. 199. The unripenesse of theyr age.

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1625.  Bacon, Ess., Delays (Arb.), 525. The Ripenesse, or Vnripenesse, of the Occasion (as we said) must euer be well weigbed.

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1678.  Marvell, Growth Popery, 42. In this state of uncertainty and unripeness, the House Adjourned.

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1783.  Phil. Trans., LXXIII. 244. The unripeness of the barley.

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1844.  Price, in Stanley, Arnold, I. iv. 196. The unripeness of England for a free and unfettered discussion.

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1886.  C. Scott, Sheep-Farming, 46. Let the same conditions or unripeness be present in any kind of roots, and their effects will be much the same.

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