All 4 Uses of
unprecedented
in
Middlemarch
- The notion of murder was absurd: no motive was discoverable, the young couple being understood to dote on each other; and it was not unprecedented that an accidental slip of the foot should have brought these grave consequences.†
Chpt 2unprecedented = not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
- His failure in passing his examination, had made his accumulation of college debts the more unpardonable by his father, and there had been an unprecedented storm at home.†
Chpt 3 *
- For to Rosamond this visit was a source of unprecedented but gracefully concealed exultation.†
Chpt 6
- "You look ill yourself, Mr. Lydgate—a most unusual, I may say unprecedented thing in my knowledge of you," said Bulstrode, showing a solicitude as unlike his indifference the day before, as his present recklessness about his own fatigue was unlike his habitual self-cherishing anxiety.†
Chpt 7