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seldomtimes

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

Seldom; rarely; infrequently.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, not-comparable

Examples

  • 1850, Henry Bullinger, H. I. (translator), Reverand Thomas Harding, A.M. (editor), The Decades of Henry Bullinger, Minister of the Church of Zurich. Mankind in prosperity is all upon lustiness and jollity, and seldomtimes thinketh with himself, from whence prosperity cometh: so he doth not set by those spiritual mysteries and benefits so much as otherwise he ought.
  • 1826-1827, Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities Alack, — mischance comes seldomtimes alone, / But aye the worried dog must rue more curs than one.

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History

Etymology

From seldom + times.