unprecedently
unprecedently adverb: in a manner or to a degree that has no precedent.
Adverb
unprecedently (comparative more unprecedently, superlative most unprecedently)
- In a manner or to a degree that has no precedent.
- Despite the fact that these women were starved and badly clad and deprived of the comforts of home, the death rate of the infants dropped steadily to an unprecedently low mark.1916, W. Grant Hague, M.D., The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.)
- Chingchou Prefecture, comprising several counties in Hupei Province, suffered a disastrous three years, and its tribulations were not unique. Massive floods rolled over one county in 1830, drowning hundreds of thousands and befouling the rice fields with sand. The dikes restraining the Yangtze...1963, Robert S. Elegant, “The Rich Impoverished, the Poor Starving”, in The Centre of the World: Communism and the Mind of China, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, page 51
Examples of unprecedently in a sentence
- In 1832, the prefectural capital suffered a severe famine while, elsewhere in Chingchou, cholera struck down tens of thousands and the normal autumnal floods were unprecedently severe.1963, Robert S. Elegant, “The Rich Impoverished, the Poor Starving”, in The Centre of the World: Communism and the Mind of China, London...
- He called it an “unprecedently brazen bandit attack” in which the Chinese rulers “revealed fully to the whole world the perfidious, aggressive essence of the great‐power policy pursued by them.”1979 March 3 [1979 March 2], Leonid I. Brezhnev, quotee, “BREZHNEV CONDEMNS CHINESE, BUT VOICES NO MILITARY THREAT”, in The New York Times...
Forms of unprecedently
| comparative | more unprecedently |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unprecedently |
Origin of unprecedently
From un- + precedent + -ly.
Questions about unprecedently
- What does unprecedently mean?
- Unprecedently means in a manner or to a degree that has no precedent.
- How do you use unprecedently in a sentence?
- In 1832, the prefectural capital suffered a severe famine while, elsewhere in Chingchou, cholera struck down tens of thousands and the normal autumnal floods were unprecedently severe.
- What part of speech is unprecedently?
- Unprecedently is an adverb.
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