ppl. a. Also 6 -waynde, -wain’d. [UN-1 8.] Not weaned; † immature.

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1581.  Studley, trans. Seneca, Herc. Œt., I. 191 b. Coulde I brooke it Toxeus, to see thy death with woe? That wert vnwaynde in yeares, and eake in pits vnpaysde.

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1596.  Fitz-Geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 30. Blinde with affection, ignorant of truthe, Vnwain’d from self-love, never at a staye.

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1607.  Chapman, Bussy d’Ambois, IV. i. 17. Or still-unwean’d sweet Moon-calues with white faces.

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1799.  Sheridan, Pizarro, I. i. 13. In peace as gentle as the unweaned lamb.

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1807.  Cogan, Treatise on Passions (1813), II. 310. An unweaned affection for peculiarities which have no other claim upon us.

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1844.  Stephens, Bk. Farm, III. 1123. The lambs remain unweaned, until they wean themselves.

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1871.  Whyte-Melville, Sarchedon, I. 3. Like sucking fawn and unweaned child.

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