JLPT N1 Advanced
空前
Unprecedented or record-breaking; having no parallel in the past.
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空前の modifies a noun
空前に functions as an adverb
No-adjective, Adverb
Unprecedented / Record-Breaking
It describes an event or phenomenon of a scale never previously witnessed in history.
Example
その 映画 は 空前 の 大ヒット と なっ た 。
That movie became an unprecedented blockbuster hit.
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