Infrequently
[ɪn'frikwəntli]
Definition
(adv.) not many times; 'in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room'.
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Definition
(adv.) Not frequently; rarely.
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Examples
- Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The ruthless exploitation of India becomes the civilizing fulfilment of the white man's burden; not infrequently the missionary, drummer, and prospector are embodied in one man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In the language of philosophers, socialism as a living force is a product of the will--a will to beauty, order, neighborliness, not infrequently a will to health. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It not infrequently takes place among heaps of rags, wool and cotton when sodden with oil; hay and straw when damp or moistened with water; and coal in the bunkers of vessels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Each one carries along a quantity of inert and outworn ideas,--not infrequently there is an internally contradictory current. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Not infrequently what was once simply a factor of life becomes the dominating part of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Not infrequently war gives rise, not only to new educational ideals, but to new institutions and to new types of institution favorable to the advancement of science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Not infrequently he is actively engaged in the manipulation of some compound of special intricacy, whose results might be illuminative of obscure facts not patent to others than himself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I have been cut off from all news of my relatives by marriage for some time paSt. When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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