unexampled

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having no known precedent or parallel; unlike anything previously encountered

   The archive preserves an unexampled record of daily life during the expedition.

Common collocations

• unexampled prosperity Adjective + noun

Formed in English from un- ('not') + example + -ed: literally, 'not furnished with a previous example.' Its historical sense of lacking a parallel developed directly into the modern meaning 'unprecedented.'

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