单词 | unpreceded |
释义 | unprecededadj. Not preceded. Chiefly with by. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > preliminary or introductory > without introduction unprefaced1683 unpreceded1747 1747 Gentleman's Mag. July 326/1 Death..arrested him, as it pleas'd God, in the kindliest,—unpreceded by Sickness,—unaccompanied by Agony. 1833 H. O'Brien in tr. J. L. Villanueva Phœnician Ireland Pref. p. xxxi This..is the lever with which, single-handed and unpreceded, he has encountered the difficulties of the Herculean combat. 1884 Law Times 6 Sept. 320/2 Hostile acts unpreceded by declaration of war. 1930 Crisis Apr. 118/2 Darkness had fallen, unpreceded by twilight. 2007 R. Born in M. Reinhart Early Mod. German Lit. 120 In the genitive case, unpreceded adjectives, which require the weak suffix -en in modern German, take the strong suffix -es in Schottelius. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1747 |
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