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English
Etymology
From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + seldom.[1][2]
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Adverb
unseldom (comparative more unseldom, superlative most unseldom)
- (literary) Not seldom; frequently, regularly.
- Synonyms: (literary except India) unoften; see also Thesaurus:often
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Pride and Prejudice: , volume II, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 52:When Mr. Collins said any thing of which his wife might reasonably be ashamed, which certainly was not unseldom, she involuntarily turned her eye on Charlotte.
, William Morris, The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress , London: Ellis and White, , →OCLC, page 21:For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed: […]
1921, Walter B Harris, “The Moorish Court. I. The Accession of Mulai Abdul Aziz.”, in Morocco That Was, Edinburgh, London: Wiliam Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 17:Mulai Abdul Aziz was, at the time of his succession (1894), about twelve or thirteen years of age. He was a younger son of the late Sultan, for Islamic thrones do not necessarily descend by primogeniture. It is not unseldom a brother who succeeds, and at times even more distant relations.
Usage notes
- Almost exclusively used in the phrase not unseldom,[3] an example of litotes.
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