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Seldomly vs Sparingly - What's the difference?

seldomly | sparingly |

As adverbs the difference between seldomly and sparingly

is that seldomly is (rare|sometimes|proscribed) seldom; rarely while sparingly is in a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely.

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.

    sparingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely.

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