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un⋅wont⋅ed

  [uhn-wawn-tid, -wohn-, -wuhn-]
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–adjective
1. not customary or usual; rare: unwonted kindness.
2. Archaic. unaccustomed or unused.
Origin:
1545–55; un- 1 + wonted

Related forms:
un⋅wont⋅ed⋅ly, adverb
un⋅wont⋅ed⋅ness, noun
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un·wont·ed   (ŭn-wôn'tĭd, -wōn'-, -wŭn'-)   
adj.  
  1. Not habitual or ordinary; unusual: "Her unwonted breach of delicacy . . . perplexed him" (George Meredith).
  2. Not accustomed; unused.
un·wont'ed·ly adv., un·wont'ed·ness n.
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Unwonted

Un*wont"ed\, a. 1. Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. --Milton.

2. Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes. "Unwonted lights." --Byron. -- Un*wont"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*wont"ed*ness, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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unwonted 
"not usual," 1553, from un- (1) "not" + pp. of wont.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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