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unfrequently

unfrequently adverb: infrequently.

Adverb

unfrequently (comparative more unfrequently, superlative most unfrequently)

  1. (dated) Infrequently.
    • She not unfrequently stopped at the Parsonage, and had a few minutes' conversation with Charlotte, but was scarcely ever prevailed upon to get out.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 30, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
    • Near to the jail, and by consequence near to Smithfield also, and the Compter, and the bustle and noise of the city; and just on that particular part of Snow Hill where omnibus horses going eastward seriously think of falling down on purpose, and where horses in hackney cabriolets going westward...1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC

Examples of unfrequently in a sentence

  • Hurry had all the prejudices and antipathies of a white hunter, who generally regards the Indian as a sort of natural competitor, and not unfrequently as a natural enemy.1841, James Fenimore Cooper, “chapter 3”, in The Deerslayer:
  • Kings and free states not unfrequently maintained a troupe of professional singers and dancers, ready to undertake at the shortest notice the performance of the most elaborate Ode.1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 2, pp. 12-13:

Forms of unfrequently

comparativemore unfrequently
superlativemost unfrequently

Origin of unfrequently

From unfrequent + -ly.

Questions about unfrequently

What does unfrequently mean?
Unfrequently means infrequently.
How do you use unfrequently in a sentence?
Hurry had all the prejudices and antipathies of a white hunter, who generally regards the Indian as a sort of natural competitor, and not unfrequently as a natural enemy.
What part of speech is unfrequently?
Unfrequently is an adverb.

Words near unfrequently in the dictionary

  1. unfrequency
  2. unfrequent
  3. unfrequented
  4. unfrequentedness
  5. unfrequenting
  6. unfrequently
  7. unfrequents
  8. unfrescoed
  9. unfresh
  10. unfreshened
  11. unfreshness

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