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Seldomly vs Often - What's the difference?

seldomly | often |

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)
  • (rare, sometimes, proscribed) Seldom; rarely.
  • * 1864 , Ellen L. Biscoe Hollis, The Winthrops , page 265:
  • the universally felt, yet seldomly acknowledged truth […].
  • * (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.
  • 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)
  • Frequently, many times.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * frequently * occasionally * usually

    Antonyms

    * infrequently * rarely * seldom

    Derived terms

    * as often as not