All 3 Uses of
unprecedented
in
The Da Vinci Code
- An unprecedented liberal, His Holiness had secured the papacy through one of the most controversial and unusual conclaves in Vatican history.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- Nobody was certain whether the Knights had blackmailed the Vatican or whether the Church simply tried to buy the Knights' silence, but Pope Innocent II immediately issued an unprecedented papal bull that afforded the Knights Templar limitless power and declared them "a law unto themselves"—an autonomous army independent of all interference from kings and prelates, both religious and political.†
Chpt 37-38
- The Vatican faces a crisis of faith unprecedented in its two-millennia history.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(unprecedented) not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before