2. (figuratively) immature, not established, inexperienced
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Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock! The unfortunate lad is the only one in all this parish that does not guess how he has been cheated.’
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights
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When I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky; but Fortune has knocked me about since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball;
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre
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If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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what we examine now (by courtesy of a photographic memory) is but its brief materialization, a puny unfledged phoenix.