The adjective "unwonted" has long been a favored literary device for signaling that something is strikingly out of the ordinary. Across works ranging from Boethius’s musings on an "unwonted sight" [1] to Wharton’s depiction of "unwonted length" in a character’s speech [2] and Dickens’s illustration of "unwonted excitement" in everyday settings [3], authors use the term to denote behaviors, emotions, or phenomena that diverge sharply from the norm. It is employed to underline unusual courtesy [4], unexpected anger [5], and even rare bursts of vivacity [6], thereby lending a dramatic emphasis to moments of change or revelation. Whether used to evoke sudden transformations in a character’s disposition, as seen with Yogananda’s intermittent display of unusual sentiment [7], or to highlight peculiar atmospheres in a scene—such as the "unwonted quiet" in Carroll’s Wonderland [8]—the word consistently signals an interruption of the regular pattern of events, inviting readers to pay closer attention to these anomalous moments [9][10].