Dictionary

seldomly en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English seldomly; equivalent to seldom + -ly.

Meanings

1. (proscribed, rare, sometimes) Seldom; rarely.
   • Very seldomly will you need to store email addresses or names that are anywhere near as long as 100 characters. 1999, Philip Greenspun, Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing:
   • Additionally, orthographic variants only very seldomly affect the text itself. 2011, Bart D. Ehrman, The Reliability of the New Testament, page 132:
   • So I the ships may see / That touch how seldomly / Thy shore? c. 1864, Emily Dickinson, “[Part 5: The Single Hound] So set its sun in thee”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, centenary edition, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, published November 1930, →OCLC, page 268:
   • the universally felt, yet seldomly acknowledged truth […] 1864, Ellen L. Biscoe Hollis, The Winthrops, page 265:

Forms

Synonyms

scarcely · rarely · unoften · seldom · seldomly · uncommonly · infrequently