Both Uses of
unprecedented
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- Excessive abdominal noise is an uncommon, but not unprecedented, presenting symptom of infection with the bacteria Clostridium difficile, which can be fatal.†
p. 4.7unprecedented = not having happened before; or nothing similar having happened before
- Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really—just like touching someone else's body isn't the same as having someone else's body.
p. 174.3 *unprecedented = unmatched (not having happened before)