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English
Etymology
From Middle English seldomly; equivalent to seldom + -ly.
Adverb
seldomly (comparative more seldomly, superlative most seldomly)
- (rare, sometimes proscribed) Seldom; rarely.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rarely
1864, Ellen L. Biscoe Hollis, The Winthrops, page 265:the universally felt, yet seldomly acknowledged truth […]
c. 1864, Emily Dickinson, “ So set its sun in thee”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, centenary edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, published November 1930, →OCLC, page 268: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, Bart D. Ehrman, The Reliability of the New Testament, page 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.
Middle English
Etymology
From seldom (“uncommon”, adjective) + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
seldomly
- (rare) seldomly; seldom.
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