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At the peak of maturity, as an apple
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ripest
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a. (en-superlative of: ripe )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ripe \Ripe\ (r[imac]p), a. [Compar. Riper (r[imac]p"[~e]r); superl. Ripest .] [AS. r[=i]pe; akin to OS. r[=i]pi, D. rijp, G. rief, OHG. r[=i]ft; cf. AS. r[=i]p harvest, r[=i]pan to reap. Cf. Reap .] Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; ...
Usage examples of ripest.
His sensitivities in such matters were not exactly overdeveloped, for in his world the various aromas of life, including the ripest, were not disguised.
Where it was ripest its lips were softly squashed like the thin leaves on the underside of a mushroom cap.
His ripest hours were spent in the day-long basketball games no one gave a damn about winning.
The other two nantuko were busy picking through the plants to find the ripest vegetables, which they gently plucked from the vines.
He stands in the midst monumentally, a land-mark of the tough and honest old Ages, with the symbolic alphabet of striking arms and running legs, our early language, scrawled over his person, and the glorious first flint and arrow-head for his crest: at once the spectre of the Kitchen-midden and our ripest issue.
You have deserted the company at the very hour when your discussions may yield the ripest fruit.
And our problem is still great, for ever and again will He pluck the ripest from our harvest of living.
His thumb massaged her cheek, softer than the ripest fruit and begging to be plucked.
Jube stripped off his shirt to reveal a broad, six-nippled chest, got himself a glass of ice to crunch, and picked the ripest steak he could find.
The final perseverance of the ripest and surest saint is all made up of ever-new beginnings in repentance, in faith, in love, and in obedience.