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unˈusual, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
Not usual; uncommon; exceptional.
In common use from c 1630.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 60 Priamus..On rusty shoulders sloa clapt his vnusual armoure. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 98 Some Commet, or vnusuall prodigie. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. 284 God will..Put some unusuall Plague in execution. 1682Lister Godartius Of Insects 28 This is a Rare and unusuall Catterpillar. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. iv, A new governor, coming at an unusual time, must portend some unusual business. 1773Life N. Frowde 56, I returned to my Book.., in a Situation quite unusual to what I had ever before experienced. 1821Scott Kenilw. xli, Varney received his profligate servant with a rebuke of unusual bitterness. 1877Huxley Physiogr. 196 A cloud of unusual size and shape was seen hanging over the mountain.
Hence unusuˈality.
1799W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 259 They have..an unusuality which startles. 1807Southey Let. to J. May 27 Jan., From its unusuality it would have a better chance of being read. a1849Poe Marginalia lvi, It is to be said of Sallust..that his obscurity, his unusuality of expression,..bore the impress of his genius. |