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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1674-1676
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Unusualness, n. [e.m.E. vnusualnesse (1579).] The quality of being unusual. —1674–6 Kirk in Il Cappellano delle Fate 159.
But it is the strangeness & unusualness of these apparitions maks them scare