seldomly

adv

seldomly

adv

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

1

Proscribed, Rare, Sometimes Seldom; rarely.

  • the universally felt, yet seldomly acknowledged truth […]1864, Ellen L. Biscoe Hollis, The Winthrops, page 265:
  • 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:
2 more examples
  • 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:

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