unexampled
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[edit]unexampled (not comparable)
- Lacking prior examples; unprecedented.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- Shortly after this Mrs. Wix looked so ill that it was to be feared her ladyship had treated her to some unexampled passage.
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Billy Budd[1], London: Constable & Co.:
- At the height of Napoleon's unexampled conquests […]
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