Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unfrequency en · NOUN

Etymology

From unfrequent + -cy.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable) Obsolete form of infrequency.
    • The unfrequency of the exercising boyes in versions and translations, is also a great error: for this will be found a better mean to inure them to Latine than either grammaires, lessons, or confabulations. 1761, Gilbert Burnet, Thoughts on Education, London: D. Wilson, page 44
    • No demand had that day been made upon the hospitality of the Hand and Bottle; and the landlord was just then murmuring at the unfrequency of employment. 1828, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter IV, in Fanshawe:
    • I was three weeks in London, and saw her (for London) very often. I had every attention from the Frasers that could be reasonably expected. I dare say I was not reasonable in carrying with me hopes of an intercourse at all like that of Mansfield. It was her manner, however, rather than any unfrequency of meeting. 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 238–239:
    • These circumstances, I mean the constant habit of authority, and the unfrequency of elections, have tended very much to draw the House of Commons towards the character of a standing Senate. 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, London: J. Dodsley, page 48: