ungrown

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In any vigor, the element of the moral conscience, the most important, the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

To-day Love ’s mute, but time hath sown A soul in her to match thine own, Though yet ungrown.

From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Garrett, Edmund Henry

The ungrown girl was standing in the middle of the room.

From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

The Hereafter is the same as Here, only larger; as things grown are larger than things ungrown.

From How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories by Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)

It is in the scenes of vehement passion, of ardour and of agony, that we feel the comparative weakness of a yet ungrown hand, the tentative uncertain grasp of a stripling giant. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund