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Bnc vs Seldomly - What's the difference?

bnc | seldomly |

As an initialism bnc

is (linguistics).

As an adverb seldomly is

(rare|sometimes|proscribed) seldom; rarely.

bnc

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (linguistics)
  • (Internet) bouncer
  • Brasenose College (Oxford, UK)

    • Anagrams

    * * *

    seldomly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (rare, sometimes, proscribed) Seldom; rarely.
  • * 1864 , Ellen L. Biscoe Hollis, The Winthrops , page 265:
    • the universally felt, yet seldomly acknowledged truth […].
  • * (Emily Dickinson), ‘So set its sun in thee’, Poems :
  • *:So I the ships may see / That touch how seldomly / Thy shore?
  • *1999 , (Philip Greenspun), Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing :
  • *:Very seldomly will you need to store email addresses or names that are anywhere near as long as 100 characters.
  • *2011 , , The Reliability of the New Testament , p. 132:
  • *:Additionally, orthographic variants only very seldomly affect the text itself.

    • Usage notes

    * Sometimes proscribed in favor of the more common seldom, itself an adverb. * At COCA seldom'' occurs more than 5,000 times; ''seldomly 12. It is even rarer in the BNC.