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Full-fledged   /fʊl-flɛdʒd/   Listen
adjective
full-fledged  adj.  
1.
Having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly; of a bird. fledgling
Synonyms: fully fledged.
2.
Having gained full status; of persons in respect to human roles; as, a full-fledged lawyer; by the age of seventeen I was a full-fledged atheist.
Synonyms: fully fledged.





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"Full-fledged" Quotes from Famous Books



... career' began. At thirteen I wrote a long poem a la 'Lady of the Lake'—1300 lines in six days. At thirteen I wrote a drama of 2000 lines, a full-fledged passionate thing that I began on the spur of the moment without forethought, just to spite my doctor who said I was very ill and must not touch a book. My health broke down permanently about this ...
— The Golden Threshold • Sarojini Naidu
... week George and Victor Shelton had become full-fledged Blackfoot citizens. Several causes united to bring about this pleasant state of affairs. In the first place, the boys used tact and good sense. If the attention they drew to themselves became annoying at times they did not allow their new ...
— Deerfoot in The Mountains • Edward S. Ellis
... They could have nothing in common. She was a mere surface—a thrillingly beautiful surface, but not a full-fledged woman. So little did conversation with him interest her, she had taken advantage of the short pause to resume her work. No, she had not the faintest interest in him. It wasn't a trick of coquetry; it was genuine. ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips
... absolutely threw off the trammels of the Quattrocento, except in his portraits, but retained to the last—not as a drawback, but rather as an added charm—the naivete, the hardly perceptible hesitation proper to art not absolutely full-fledged. ...
— The Earlier Work of Titian • Claude Phillips
... silence Roberts glanced at the clock and arose preparatory to bed. Watching the familiar action, a new thought sprang full-fledged to Armstrong's brain, a sudden appreciation of the unconscious dependence he had grown to feel on the other ...
— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge


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