Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not hatched; not having left the egg.
- Not matured and brought to light; not disclosed.
- Not hatched or marked with cuts or lines; not scratched or injured: applied in the quotations to a rapier not yet used in fight, both literally and figuratively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not yet
hatched .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not yet emerged from an egg
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Examples
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Walser, a typical 19th century white male, is unwilling to consider an egalitarian relationship with a woman, and the possibility of his own vulnerability doesn't even occur to him--as Carter tells us, Walser is 'unhatched', a man who's experienced much but who hasn't allowed any of his experiences to truly affect him.
Archive 2005-11-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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Walser, a typical 19th century white male, is unwilling to consider an egalitarian relationship with a woman, and the possibility of his own vulnerability doesn't even occur to him--as Carter tells us, Walser is 'unhatched', a man who's experienced much but who hasn't allowed any of his experiences to truly affect him.
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock: Being A Positive Bad Review or A Negative Good Review Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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Matt Roush: If blurry memory serves, Anna did suffer some setbacks, including the sabotage of her entire cache of unhatched eggs.
Ask Matt: Crime-Show Upheavals, Dancing and Killing and More! 2011
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Do you have a point aside from gloating 9 months before the election about your unhatched victory?
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Matt Roush: If blurry memory serves, Anna did suffer some setbacks, including the sabotage of her entire cache of unhatched eggs.
Ask Matt: Crime-Show Upheavals, Dancing and Killing and More! 2011
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It was all about the pristine exhilaration of the adventure -- as unsullied and unhatched as the lines of Hergé's drawings.
Sandip Roy: Tintin: An Adventurer From Another Time? Sandip Roy 2011
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Do you have a point aside from gloating 9 months before the election about your unhatched victory?
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It was all about the pristine exhilaration of the adventure -- as unsullied and unhatched as the lines of Hergé's drawings.
Sandip Roy: Tintin: An Adventurer From Another Time? Sandip Roy 2011
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There were bones from a wide assortment of creatures that we could not identify, and there was a clutch of what looked like unhatched eggs.
Around a Sun Named Inferno Hugh Barlow 2011
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It was all about the pristine exhilaration of the adventure -- as unsullied and unhatched as the lines of Hergé's drawings.
Sandip Roy: Tintin: An Adventurer From Another Time? Sandip Roy 2011
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