Oftness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of happening often; frequency. archaic, rare, uncountable

    "Often fasting which was a virtue in John's disciples could not in them of itself be a vice, and therefore not the oftness of their fasting but their hypocrisy therein was blamed."

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commonnessfrequency

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"Often fasting which was a virtue in John's disciples could not in them of itself be a vice, and therefore not the oftness of their fasting but their hypocrisy therein was blamed."

Etymology

From oft + -ness.

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