ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Having no preceding or similar example; unprecedented, unparalleled.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 724. David King of Scots, who with his unexampled cruelty had made this country almost a wildernesse.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., IV. iv. (1677), 325. This admirable … production of such a Nature unexampled before.
1763. Wilkes, Corr. (1805), I. 75. Your lordship’s unexampled care of his majesty’s youth.
1816. J. Scott, Vis. Paris (ed. 5), 176. With unexampled ability and villainy, he fashioned the people to suit his views.
1855. Bain, Senses & Int., III. iv. § 24. This is an extreme case, but not unexampled in the history of the world.
