All 6 Uses
unprecedented
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Another Country
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- They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most unprecedented of monuments; abysmal the mystery of what they think, what they feel, what they want, what they suppose themselves to be saying.†
p. i.5unprecedented = not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
- Entirely alone, and dying of it, he was part of an unprecedented multitude.†
p. 4.7
- She bent her head over her cocktail glass, disappearing for a moment, like some unprecedented turtle, behind the citadel of her hair.†
p. 306.6
- She seemed to be laboring, within herself, up some steep, unprecedented slope.†
p. 348.7
- They became an odd and unprecedented beauty and the beast up there; and, for the first time consciously, Cass wondered about their real relationship to one another.†
p. 358.8
- But it was yet more strange and made for an unprecedented steadiness and freedom, that Eric loved him.†
p. 387.6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(unprecedented) not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)