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Definition of Infrequently
1. Adverb. Not many times. "In your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room"
Definition of Infrequently
1. adv. Not frequently; rarely.
Definition of Infrequently
1. Adjective. Not frequently. ¹
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Definition of Infrequently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infrequently
Literary usage of Infrequently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... left little to be desired, and many of the minor sketches were intelligent,
to the point, and, not infrequently, humorous in a somewhat grim fashion. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"It nevertheless not infrequently happens that in transitional forms, such as are
met with in Sequoia ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"She put the labor of the working years of an average life-time into that half-decade
of toil for a hunted race, and so it was again, as not infrequently in ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"... inadequate to account for the presence of such foldings as occur in many
districts; though it is to such a cause they are not infrequently attributed. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... done by members of the order. tired of teaching, the teachers not infrequently
went visiting with their pupils to some acquaintance or relative. ..."
6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"... of which is nevertheless accessible Irum Montreal or Boston in about twenty-four
hours, roam moose, the breadth between whose antlers not infrequently ..."
7. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... hero, too, not »infrequently, they slept ; and here some of their festivals
were held. From the house-tops the rising of the sun was proclaimed, ..."
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