Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cease to frequent.
- Not frequent; not common; not happening often; infrequent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Infrequent.
- transitive verb obsolete To cease to frequent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
frequent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Appenfell was one of those mountains, not unfrequent, which is on one side abrupt and bounded by a wall of almost fathomless precipice, and on the other descends to the plain in a cataract of billowy undulations.
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I HAVE rared up and ripsnorted at spells, but most unfrequent.
To Kill a Man 2010
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Antelope also were very numerous, and as they were quite tame -- being seldom chased -- and naturally very inquisitive, it was not an unfrequent thing to see one of the graceful little creatures run in among the men and be made a prisoner.
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But, as is not unfrequent with a man who is fond of reading but no linguist, Ibsen's French and English came and went in a trembling uncertainty.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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The immediate cause of this phenomenon might probably have been an earthquake, not unfrequent in that country.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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But, as is not unfrequent with a man who is fond of reading but no linguist, Ibsen's French and English came and went in a trembling uncertainty.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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"'George, I let Mary go yesterday,' was not an unfrequent salutation at the dinner table."
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I had the pleasure, on this occasion, of renewing the acquaintance of Master Micawber, whom I found a promising boy of about twelve or thirteen, very subject to that restlessness of limb which is not an unfrequent phenomenon in youths of his age.
David Copperfield 2007
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Neat attendants silently glide about the orderly and silent tables; the lookers-on move or stop as the fancy takes them; comments in whispers on face such a number from such a window are not unfrequent; many of the faces are of a character to fix attention.
No Thoroughfare 2007
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After illustrating the wisdom of going backward, by reference to that sagacious fish, the crab, and the not unfrequent practice of the mule and donkey, he described their general objects; which were briefly vengeance on their Tyrant
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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