1614. Tomkis, Albumazar, IV. ii. This man admires the vnexpectednesse Of my returne.
1654. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 74. You should haue lessen’d my ruine, at least of one misery, which is the suddenness and unexpectedness of it.
1725. Watts, Logic, III. iv. § 8. This will plainly prove that he describes the Unexpectedness of his Appearance.
1804–6. Syd. Smith, Mor. Philos. (1850), 378. The unexpectedness of the news excites … the feeling of surprise.
1893. McCarthy, Red Diamonds, III. 221. An adventure stranger in its ironic unexpectedness than anything which had befallen him.
