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Generally vs Ofter - What's the difference?

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As adverbs the difference between generally and ofter

is that generally is popularly or widely while ofter is .

generally

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Popularly or widely.
  • As a rule; usually.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
  • , passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally , however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
  • Without reference to specific details.
  • (obsolete) Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.
  • * The Holy Bible, 2 (w) xvii
  • I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee.

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    ofter

    English

    Adverb

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  • More often (chiefly poetic and dialectal) .
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