oftness en · NOUN
Etymology
From oft + -ness.
Meanings
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(archaic, rare, uncountable) The quality of happening often; frequency.
Often fasting which was a virtue in John's disciples could not in them of itself be a vice, and therefore not the oftness of their fasting but their hypocrisy therein was blamed.
1888, Richard Hooker, John Keble, The Works, volume 2, page 411: