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seldom
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seldom \Sel"dom\ (s[e^]l"d[u^]m), adv. [Usually, Compar. More seldom (m[=o]r" s[e^]l"d[u^]m); superl. Most seldom (m[=o]st" s[e^]l"d[u^]m); but sometimes also, Seldomer (s[e^]l"d[u^]m*[~e]r), Seldomest .] [AS. seldan, seldon, seldum, fr. seld rare; akin ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. not often; "we rarely met" [syn: rarely ] [ant: frequently ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English seldum , alteration of seldan "seldom, rarely," from Proto-Germanic *selda- "strange, rare" (cognates: Old Norse sjaldan , Old Frisian selden , Dutch zelden , Old High German seltan , German selten ), perhaps ultimately from the base of ...
Usage examples of seldom.
While it is indeed possible to derive stem cells from aborted embryos, it is seldom done for two reasons.
The absolute silence of this seldom used dungeon was broken by a creaking sound, exactly the sound, he realised, of the handle to the door below that gave admittance upon the prisoners.
It is very seldom in the history of political issues, even when partisan feeling is most deeply developed, that so absolute a division is found as was recorded upon the question of adopting the Fourteenth Amendment.
Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them.
Sir Henry Ancred is perhaps the worst of the lot, but, because he is an actor, his friends accept his behaviour as part of his stock-in-trade, and apart from an occasional feeling of shyness in his presence, seldom make the mistake of worrying about him.
For instance, his eyes were of a dark brown hue seldom seen on Stratos, set anomalously far apart.
Accuracy of thought has seldom been more recklessly offered up to pungency of expression than in the above-cited aphorism of Pope.
As a rule, this artificiality is accepted as Irishism, or Yeats is even credited with simplicity because he uses short words, but in fact one seldom comes on six consecutive lines of his verse in which there is not an archaism or an affected turn of speech.
The motto had been used so often in the struggle to decide the question of invasion that Bade seldom noticed it any more.
It was seldom now that a visiting carriage came dri vine through the water-filled bawn to cleanse its wheels before the return journey.
Mad Binny spoke with the calmness of one who had seldom been contradicted.
It was widely known that Cavilon disliked the London air and was seldom, if ever, seen in anything but his closed coach.
Although it was only a three-hour flight in the company jet which Garry loved to pilot himself, yet these days Centaine very seldom saw them at Weltevreden.
They seldom laugh or smile, even under the inspiration of chicha, and months of intercourse with them did not discover to us the power of song, though Villavicencio says they do sometimes intone fragments of prose in their festival orgies.
Neighbouring cistrons on the same chromosome form a tightly-knit troupe of travelling companions who seldom fail to get on board the same vessel when meiosis time comes around.