неслыханный

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Russian

Etymology

не- (ne-) +‎ слы́ханный (slýxannyj), past passive participle of слыха́ть (slyxátʹ, to hear).

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Adjective

неслы́ханный (neslýxannyj)

  1. unheard-of
    • 1883, Всеволод Гаршин, chapter IV, in Красный цветок; English translation from A Red Flower, Philadelphia: Brown Brothers, 1911:
      Он дрожал как в лихорадке и судорожно стискивал себе грудь, всю пропитанную, как ему казалось, неслыханно смертельным ядом.
      On drožal kak v lixoradke i sudorožno stiskival sebe grudʹ, vsju propitannuju, kak jemu kazalosʹ, neslyxanno smertelʹnym jadom.
      He shook as in a fever, and pressed vehemently his bosom, which was impregnated, as it seemed to him, with some unheard-of deadly poison.

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