unheard-of
See also: unheard of
English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]unheard-of (comparative more unheard-of, superlative most unheard-of)
- Previously unknown; unprecedented.
- 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 289:
- He was […] none of your unconscionable blades, requiring impossible chops, and taking unheard-of pickles for granted.
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, “Silver Spruce and Aspens”, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 114:
- Starvation in the uplands was not an unheard-of thing; […]
- 1983 June, Isaac Asimov, “Editorial: Unreasonable!”, in Shawna McCarthy, editor, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 7, number 6 (66 overall), New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:
- But then, it is not unheard-of for reviewers to berate a writer for writing a book according to his own taste, and not the book the reviewer would have written, if the reviewer were only capable of writing.
- 2004, Peter Bondanella, chapter 4, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, page 175:
- Prohibition produced the immense and previously unheard-of wealth that launched truly organized crime in America.
Translations
[edit]previously unknown; unprecedented
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