Adverb

(en adverb)

Infrequently, rarely.

*

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*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times citation

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

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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.