seldomer

English

Adverb

seldomer

  1. (archaic) comparative form of seldom: more seldom
    • 1874, Rhoda Broughton, Nancy:
      "He looks as if he had been so much oftener vexed, and so much seldomer pleased than you do," continued I, mentally comparing the smooth though weather-beaten benignity of the straight-cut features beside me, with the austere and frown-puckered gravity of my father's.
    • 1890, Edwin Asa Dix, A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees:
      One seldomer sees in southern France a sight frequent in Italy and many other parts of Europe,--that of a woman toilsomely dragging a hand-cart or shouldering a burden while her spouse walks idly by and smokes a thankful pipe.
    • 1891, Various, Character Writings of the 17th Century:
      He is like our painting gentlewomen, seldom in his own face, seldomer in his clothes; and he pleases, the better he counterfeits, except only when he is disguised with straw for gold lace.

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