All 3 Uses of
unprecedented
in
Brave New World
- She felt in her pocket for her soma–only to discover that, by some unprecedented oversight, she had left the bottle down at the rest-house.†
p. 111..6 *
- The intoxication of success had evaporated; he was soberly his old self; and by contrast with the temporary balloon of these last weeks, the old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.†
p. 178..8
- At "sole Arabian tree" he started; at "thou shrieking harbinger" he smiled with sudden pleasure; at "every fowl of tyrant wing" the blood rushed up into his cheeks; but at "defunctive music" he turned pale and trembled with an unprecedented emotion.†
p. 183..4
Definition:
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(unprecedented) not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before