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unprecedentedly

unprecedentedly

2 7.8
In a way never done before
  • adverb
  • /ʌnˈprɛsɪdɛntɪdli/
: sin precedentes
  • The early part of the 20th century coincided with major improvements in infant health, as deaths in childbirth dwindled to unprecedentedly low levels.
  • unprecedentedly high

Examples

  • In 1964, Perl was lured to Stanford by the promise of unprecedentedly high electron-beam energies at the two-mile-long Stanford Linear Accelerator, then under construction.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Positively speaking, though, one is impressed by the unprecedentedly high degree of political tolerance displayed throughout the event.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Street protests have been large, in some parts of the world, unprecedentedly so.

    Blog text (19)
  • And this is that unprecedentedly high approval rate for self-defense forces.

  • With this development, the Islamist movement was unprecedentedly integrated into the system.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Nor is the fact that equity markets have boomed, despite the unprecedentedly high real interest rates, an encouraging sign.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Using the technology, the IBM professionals provided extensive lists of exceptional accuracy in an unprecedentedly short time.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Evaluation research has documented the success of these partnerships in supporting an unprecedentedly high rate of postsecondary diploma completion among the First Nations community members.

    Academic text (2004)
  • And as the developmental psychologist Michael Tomasello and colleagues have particularly stressed, attention, especially shared or commonly focused attention, has become unprecedentedly important to our species.

    Academic text (2009)
  • The students achieved unprecedentedly high scores on the exam, impressing the teachers.

How New

unprecedentedly
2 7.8
newly
343 1.0
commonly
179 1.0

Surface Forms

unprecedentedly positive

Morphology

unprecedentedly = unprecedented (transparent) = un + precedent + ed + ly

Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'unprecedented', a straightforward derivation.

Etymology

Unprecedentedly breaks into un- 'not' and precedent 'something done before', and the related verb precede means 'go before'. So unprecedentedly means 'in a way that has not happened before'.