1. Not uncommonly, not rarely; pretty frequently.
1747. J. Smith, Mem. Wool, I. Pref. a j, note. A certain Person more than ordinarily concerned, and not uncommonly employed, gave it as a Reason for not reading a Tract upon this Subject, ‘that it would have cost him two or three Hours.’
1883. Stubbs, Med. & Mod. Hist., xv. (1886), 343. We are not uncommonly told that Henry VII. had not in his own person the shadow of hereditary right.
2. In an uncommon or unusual degree; unusually, remarkably.
1751. Earl Orrery, Remarks Swift (1752), 10. Otherwise it was thought impossible, that he could be so uncommonly munificent to a young man, no ways related to him.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, liv. There was something in his countenance uncommonly interesting.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxiv. He wrote an uncommonly handsome hand.
1885. Truth, 28 May, 847/2. The high-priced nobodies who … do so uncommonly little.
