Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
Section VI. Time
3. Recurrent Time
137. Infrequency.
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NOUN: | INFREQUENCY, infrequence, unfrequency [rare], rareness, rarity; sparseness, fewness [See Fewness]; seldomness; uncommonness.
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VERB: | BE RARE &c. adj.
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ADJECTIVE: | INFREQUENT, unfrequent [rare], seldseen [archaic], uncommon, sporadic; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few [See Fewness]; scarce; almost unheard of, scarce as hen’s teeth [colloq.], unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one’s previous experience.
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ADVERB: | SELDOM, rarely, scarcely, hardly; not often, unfrequently, infrequently, uncommonly, sparsely, unoften; scarcely ever, hardly ever; once in a blue moon [colloq.]. once; once for all, once in a way; pro hac vice [L.].
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QUOTATIONS: | - Ein mal kein mal.
- Like angel visits, few and far between.—Campbell
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