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seldome

seldome is the obsolete spelling of seldom.

Meaning of seldom

Adjective

seldom (comparative more seldom or seldomer, superlative most seldom or seldomest)

  1. (archaic) Rare; infrequent.
    • a suppressed and seldom anger1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC

See all 2 meanings of seldom

Forms of seldome

comparativemore seldome
superlativemost seldome

Questions about seldome

What is seldome the obsolete spelling of?
Seldome is the obsolete spelling of seldom.

Words near seldome in the dictionary

  1. Seldenian
  2. Seldeniana
  3. Seldens
  4. seldom
  5. seldom or ever
  6. seldome
  7. seldomer
  8. seldomest
  9. seldomly
  10. seldomness
  11. seldomtimes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seldome (page history and authors); seldom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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