seldomly

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adverb

Seldom; rarely.

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Meanings

adverbseldomly (comparative more seldomly, superlative most seldomly)

comparative more seldomly · superlative most seldomly

  1. proscribedraresometimesSeldom; rarely.

    the universally felt, yet seldomly acknowledged truth […]

    1864, Ellen L. Biscoe Hollis, The Winthrops, page 265
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    So I the ships may see / That touch how seldomly / Thy shore?

    c. 1864, Emily Dickinson, “[Part 5: The Single Hound] So set its sun in thee”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, centenary edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, published November 1930, →OCLC, page 268

    Very seldomly will you need to store email addresses or names that are anywhere near as long as 100 characters.

    1999, Philip Greenspun, Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing

    Additionally, orthographic variants only very seldomly affect the text itself.

    2011, Bart D. Ehrman, The Reliability of the New Testament, page 132

    Synonyms: rarely, seldom, infrequently, scarcely, uncommonly, unoften

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Middle Englishseldomly
  2. Englishseldomly

From Middle English seldomly; equivalent to seldom + -ly.

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