Both Uses of "unprecedented" in "The House of the Seven Gables"

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Both Uses

unprecedented
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The House of the Seven Gables
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The child, staring with round eyes at this instance of liberality, wholly unprecedented in his large experience of cent-shops, took the man of gingerbread, and quitted the premises.†
Chpt 3 *

unprecedented = not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
But Hepzibah could not rid herself of the sense of something unprecedented at that instant passing and soon to be accomplished.†
Chpt 16

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