Seldomly vs Often - What's the difference?
seldomly | often |
(rare, sometimes, proscribed) Seldom; rarely.
* 1864 , Ellen L. Biscoe Hollis, The Winthrops , page 265:
* (Emily Dickinson), ‘So set its sun in thee’, Poems :
*:So I the ships may see / That touch how seldomly / Thy shore?
*1999 , (Philip Greenspun), Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing :
*:Very seldomly will you need to store email addresses or names that are anywhere near as long as 100 characters.
*2011 , , The Reliability of the New Testament , p. 132:
*:Additionally, orthographic variants only very seldomly affect the text itself.
Frequently, many times.
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As adverbs the difference between seldomly and often
is that seldomly is (rare|sometimes|proscribed) seldom; rarely while often is frequently, many times.seldomly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- the universally felt, yet seldomly acknowledged truth […].
Usage notes
* Sometimes proscribed in favor of the more common seldom, itself an adverb. * At COCA seldom'' occurs more than 5,000 times; ''seldomly 12. It is even rarer in the BNC.often
English
Adverb
(en-adv)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often , their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}