Definitions
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- adjective Too frequent.
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- adjective Excessively
frequent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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One year he had trouble with audience phones and coughs and walked out thankfully your correspondent's cold and overfrequent coughing had left Edinburgh by then.
Hmm... Jessica 2006
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Avoiding overfrequent laundering and dry cleaning of clothes and furnishings is environmentally prudent too.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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• Frequent chlorine bleaching will usually cause some fading in colored articles essentially in all but a few vat-dyed ones, and overfrequent bleaching will harm fabrics made of some types of fibers, resulting in a weakening of the cloth and, possibly, frayed areas or holes.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Avoiding overfrequent laundering and dry cleaning of clothes and furnishings is environmentally prudent too.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Avoiding overfrequent laundering and dry cleaning of clothes and furnishings is environmentally prudent too.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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• Frequent chlorine bleaching will usually cause some fading in colored articles essentially in all but a few vat-dyed ones, and overfrequent bleaching will harm fabrics made of some types of fibers, resulting in a weakening of the cloth and, possibly, frayed areas or holes.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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• Frequent chlorine bleaching will usually cause some fading in colored articles essentially in all but a few vat-dyed ones, and overfrequent bleaching will harm fabrics made of some types of fibers, resulting in a weakening of the cloth and, possibly, frayed areas or holes.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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• Frequent chlorine bleaching will usually cause some fading in colored articles essentially in all but a few vat-dyed ones, and overfrequent bleaching will harm fabrics made of some types of fibers, resulting in a weakening of the cloth and, possibly, frayed areas or holes.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Avoiding overfrequent laundering and dry cleaning of clothes and furnishings is environmentally prudent too.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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She was, too, friendly; she talked to women -- in her not overfrequent opportunities -- in a rapid warm inaccurate confession of almost everything they desired to hear.
Linda Condon Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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