unfrequent
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a word derived from
frequent.
frequentadjectivehappening or occurring at short intervals.
Example Sentences
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Although, when circumstances favor it, some portion of Saturday is devoted to hauling up camp wood, yet the practice of devoting a few hours of the concluding part of the Sabbath is not unfrequent.
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer
St Paul indicates a real, and not unfrequent danger.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
In line 27 'Thee therefore &c.' is a thought not unfrequent with the panegyrists of James.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
Passages of this kind are not unfrequent in Stoical writings.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Letters of a business nature are not unfrequent, and are generally dry and uninteresting.
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches