Both Uses
unprecedented
in
Notes of a Native Son
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- The fact that he did not dare caused me to despise him: I had no way of knowing that he was facing in that living room a wholly unprecedented and frightening situation.†
Subsection 1 *unprecedented = not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
- It was destined, however, to receive an unprecedented publicity, for the fight between the policeman and the soldier ended with the shooting of the soldier.†
Subsection 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(unprecedented) not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)