Ambition is firſt Miniſter of State; / Love's but a ſecond in the Cabinet; / nor can he feather there his unfledg'd Shaft / But from Ambition's VVing: […]
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Unfledged
//ˈʌnflɛd͡ʒd//
Synonyms for "unfledged" (111 found)
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14 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- неоперен adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
Dutch
1 entries- ongevederd adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
Finnish
2 entries- höyhenetön adj (not having feathers)
- höyhenetön adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
German
3 entries- (noch) nicht flügge adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
- ungefiedert adj (not having feathers)
- ungefiedert adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
Greek
1 entries- άπτερος adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
Irish
2 entries- gan cleiteacha adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
- scallta adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
Polish
1 entries- nieopierzony adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
Portuguese
1 entries- implume adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
Russian
1 entries- неоперившийся adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
Ukrainian
1 entries- неопере́ний adj (of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
This knave, […] shoes horses better than e'er a man betwixt us and Iceland; and so he gives up his practice on the bipeds, the two-legged and unfledged species, called mankind, and betakes him entirely to shoeing of horses.
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[W]e poore vnfledg'd / Haue never vving'd from vievv o' th'neſt; nor knovves^([sic – meaning know]) not / VVhat Ayre's from home.
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[T]his ſuperannuated Beldame gapes for Flattery, like a Neſt of unfledged Crovvs for Food; and vvith them too, gulps dovvn every Thing that's offer'd her—no matter hovv Coarſe; […]
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