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Definition of Oftenness
1. Noun. The number of occurrences within a given time period. "The frequency of his seizures increased as he grew older"
Specialized synonyms: Audio, Audio Frequency, Radio Frequency, Infrared, Infrared Frequency, Wave Number, Attendance, Count Per Minute, Counts/minute, Sampling Frequency
Generic synonyms: Rate
Derivative terms: Frequent, Frequent
Definition of Oftenness
1. n. Frequency.
Definition of Oftenness
1. Noun. (rare) The quality of happening often; frequency. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oftenness
Literary usage of Oftenness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With an by Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton (1875)
"... and oftenness of doing well. [^But the nature of Goodness being thus ample,
a Law is properly that which Reason in such sort ..."
2. The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With an by Richard Hooker (1874)
"... could not in them of itself be a vice, and therefore not the oftenness of
their fasting but their hypocrisy therein was blamed. [5. ..."
3. On the Lessons in Proverbs: Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered to by Richard Chenevix Trench (1856)
"This name is not proverbio, for that in Spanish signifies an apothegm, an aphorism,
a maxim; but refran, which is a referenda, from the oftenness of its ..."
4. Tactics of Infidels by Louis Aloisius Lambert (1887)
"Who is to determine when a negation has this oftenness which gives it the value
of an affirmation? Had you said that negation is entitled to as much respect ..."
5. The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: In Eight Books : Of the Laws of by Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton (1821)
"Often fasting, which was a virtue in John's disciples, could not in them of itself
be a vice ; and, therefore, not the oftenness of 2 Chron. their ..."
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