Unprecedently

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a manner or to a degree that has no precedent.

    "Despite the fact that these women were starved and badly clad and deprived of the comforts of home, the death rate of the infants dropped steadily to an unprecedently low mark."

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"Despite the fact that these women were starved and badly clad and deprived of the comforts of home, the death rate of the infants dropped steadily to an unprecedently low mark."

Etymology

From un- + precedent + -ly.

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