Seldomtimes

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Seldom; rarely; infrequently. archaic, not-comparable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From seldom + times.

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