oftness

noun

oftness

noun

Etymology From oft + -ness.

1

Archaic, Rare The quality of happening often; frequency.

Often fasting which was a virtue in John's disciples could not in them of itself be a vice, and therefore not the oftness of their fasting but their hypocrisy therein was blamed.1888, Richard Hooker, John Keble, The Works, volume 2, page 411:

Synonyms: frequency

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