The Only Use of "unprecedented" in "The Great Gatsby"

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unprecedented
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The Great Gatsby
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She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village — appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.†
p. 107.3

unprecedented = not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before

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(1) (unprecedented)
not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)