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unheard-of

[uhn-hurd-uhv, -ov, -uhv]

adjective

that was never heard of; unknown: an unheard-of artist.

such as was never known before; unprecedented: an unheard-of salary.

shocking or outrageous: unheard-of conduct.

Origin:
1585–95

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unheard-of

—*adj*
1.	previously unknown: an unheard-of actress
2.	without precedent: an unheard-of treatment
3.	highly offensive: unheard-of behaviour

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"As we poled up a swift rapid for half a mile above Aboljacarmegus Falls, some of the party read their own marks on the huge logs which lay piled up high and dry on the rocks on either hand, the relics probably of a jam which had taken place here in the Great Freshet in the spring. Many of these would have to wait for another freshet, perchance, if they lasted so long, before they could be got off. It was singular enough to meet with property of theirs which they had never seen, and where they had never been before, thus detained by freshets and rocks when on its way to them. Methinks that must be where all my property lies, cast up on the rocks on some distant and unexplored stream, and waiting for an unheard-of freshet to fetch it down. O make haste, ye gods, with your winds and rains, and start the jam before it rots!"

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