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Definition of Ofter
1. adv.
Definition of Ofter
1. Adverb. More often ''(chiefly poetic and dialectal)''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ofter
1. oft [adv] - See also: oft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ofter
Literary usage of Ofter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when at the Bar by Thomas Erskine Erskine, James Ridgway (1816)
"... or ofter, violence to any one. And this Deponent further saith, that he neither
attempted to rescue the said Arthur O'Connor, nor did he at any time ..."
2. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Each shore -which weav'd for him the snares of death, To him these shores shall
pledge their ofter'cl faith; ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"the carriage of ofter property, so that a statute authorizing street surface
railroads to carry persons and property in their cars could not be presumed to ..."
4. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"War of Wartburg, a poetic contest at Wartburg Castle, in which Vogel- j wcid
triumphed over Heinrich von ofter- dingen. Wluch the hard had fought before. ..."
5. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"... from the same source, ofter no points of discrimination ; though, like Sir
James Smith, I have never seen the fertile catkins. 32. ..."
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