unseldom
advUS, UK /ʌnˈsɛldəm/
Etymology From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + seldom.
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Literary Not seldom; frequently, regularly.
- When Mr. Collins said any thing of which his wife might reasonably be ashamed, which certainly was not unseldom, she involuntarily turned her eye on Charlotte.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 52:
- For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed: […][1878], William Morris, The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress […], London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, page 21:
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- Mulai Abdul Aziz was, at the time of his succession (1894), about twelve or thirteen years of age. He was a younger son of the late Sultan, for Islamic thrones do not necessarily descend by primogeniture. It is not unseldom a brother who succeeds, and at times even more distant relations.1921, Walter B[urton] Harris, “The Moorish Court. I. The Accession of Mulai Abdul Aziz.”, in Morocco That Was, Edinburgh; London: Wiliam Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 17: