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unwonted
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synonyms: preternatural ???
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Definition:unusual
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his senses were alert, and his mental faculties wakened to unwonted activity.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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No, miss. I don't—I know it is not true!" said Liddy, frightened at Bathsheba's unwonted vehemence. Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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Levin went to the steps, took a run from above as best he could, and dashed down, preserving his balance in this unwonted movement with his hands.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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with the door wide open, and unwonted lights that had been hastily caught up and put down scattered about.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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it was an unwonted performance: but he had learned to trust in men he knew,
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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her blue eyes clouded with an unwonted melancholy, she sat in a corner, cut off from those who surrounded her by an emotion which they did not share.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah, p.117 (2013)
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I think some long-unwonted sense of beauty and tranquillity, some softening influence awakened by its peace, moved faintly in my breast.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.
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