Both Uses of
unprecedented
in
Leaves of Grass
- These, my voice announcing—I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.†
Chpt 2 *
- Land of unprecedented faith, God's faith, Thy soil, thy very subsoil, all upheav'd, The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence for what it is boldly laid bare, Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(unprecedented) not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before