adv. [UN-1 11 b. Cf. prec.] Not unseldom (misused for), not rarely, not infrequently.

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  Du. niet onzelden is similarly used.

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1658.  W. Burton, Itin. Anton., 204. It is a thing not unseldome seen.

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1686.  Parr, Life of Usher, 83. Gaming … too often administred to Passion,… and not unseldom to Duelling.

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a. 1836.  Mrs. Sherwood, Nun, ii. They not unseldom spent the afternoon under the cedar-trees.

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1860.  Trench, Deficiencies Eng. Dict., 64. Johnson … quotes, not altogether unseldom…, Hacket’s Life of Archbp. Williams.

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1882.  Athenæum, 23 Sept., 401/2. A style which was generally diffuse, and not unseldom obscure.

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