Both Uses
unprecedented
in
The Four Freedoms
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- Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, members of the 77th Congress: I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union.†
unprecedented = not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
- I use the word "unprecedented" because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today.†
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Definitions:
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(unprecedented) not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)