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unexˈpectedness
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1614T. Tomkis Albumazar iv. ii, This man admires the vnexpectednesse Of my returne. 1654Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 74 You should haue lessen'd my ruine, at least of one misery, which is the suddenness and unexpectedness of it. 1725Watts Logic iii. iv. §8 This will plainly prove that he describes the Unexpectedness of his Appearance. 1804–6Syd. Smith Mor. Philos. (1850) 378 The unexpectedness of the news excites..the feeling of surprise. 1893McCarthy Red Diamonds III. 221 An adventure stranger in its ironic unexpectedness than anything which had befallen him. |