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Webster 1913 Edition


Unexampled

Unˊex-am′pled

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Adj.
Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled.
“A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results.”
De Quincey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unexampled

UNEXAM'PLED

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Adj.
Having no example or similar case; having no precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled; as the unexampled love and sufferings of our Savior.

Definition 2024


unexampled

unexampled

English

Adjective

unexampled (not comparable)

  1. 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, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 7,
      At the height of Napoleon's unexampled conquests []