Be of comfort; / My father's of a better nature, sir, / Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted, / Which now came from him.
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Unwonted
/ʌnˈwɑntɪd/
Synonyms for "unwonted" (64 found)
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new tooddoffbeatout of the ordinaryout of this worldout-of-the-waypeculiarphenomenalrarerechercheremarkablerustysingularstrangesuddensui generisunaccustomed
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unacquainted withuncommonunconventionalunconversant withuncustomaryundreamed ofundreamed-ofunexpectedunfamiliarunfamiliar withunhabituatedunhardenedunheard ofunheard-ofunimaginableuninureduniqueunordinaryunorthodoxunpracticed
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After the first flutter of conscious delight which his entrance had caused, she was able to talk to him cheerfully, and her spirits rose with the unwonted enjoyment.
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And Rick with unwonted diffidence had accepted his exclusion. Now with the same diffidence he came, looking trim and loving and mysteriously humble.
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...And ocean salinity, of course, represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. I didn't know what a proton was, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't know how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything, really. I became gripped by a quiet, unwonted but insistent urge to know a little more about these matters and to understand above all how people figured them out.
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