All 4 Uses of
unprecedented
in
The Fountainhead
- As she pointed out frequently, she was a lady and had graduated from high school; yet she had worked hard, had taken boarders into their home, a concession unprecedented in her family.†
Chpt 1.2
- Francon took him out to lunch—an unprecedented honor for an employee.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Francon's sullen mood led him to the unprecedented breach of snapping over nothing in particular at the one person who had always been immune from it—Peter Keating.†
Chpt 1.9
- I did ignore Mr. Wynand's orders in a matter of policy, perhaps an unprecedented action for a managing editor to take.†
Chpt 4.15
Definition:
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(unprecedented) not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before