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▪ I. unˈfrequent, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. = infrequent a. 3.
1611Florio, Infrequente, vnfrequent, seld, not frequent. 1712Steele Spect. No. 472 ⁋1 This Misfortune is so very great and unfrequent, that one would think, an Establishment for all the Poor under it might be easily accomplished. 1793Coleridge Songs of Pixies iii, Beneath whose foliage pale Fann'd by the unfrequent gale We shield us from the Tyrant's mid-day rage. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 246 In those unfrequent frosts which destroy all vegetation. 1866Howells Venet. Life v. 63 The blond, unfrequent beauty of the German aliens.
b. With preceding negative.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. xiii. 230 As Deliriums and Phrensies are not unfrequent in Feavers. 1749J. Mason Numbers in Poet. Compositions 57 This is a peculiar close, but not unfrequent in Milton. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. vii, A personage not so unfrequent in the streets of Constantinople as to excite any particular notice. 1871Mill Pol. Econ. (ed. 7) 200 There is, however, a not unfrequent case, in which the purpose of the borrower is different.
†2. = infrequent a. 2. Obs.—1
1618Rowlands Sacred Mem. 24 This place is solitary, vnfrequent; We are belated.
▪ II. unfreˈquent, v.
[un-1 14 or un-2 3.]
trans. To refrain or cease from frequenting.
1598Florio, Disconuersare, to vnfrequent, not to conuerse together. Ibid., Sconuersare, to disaccompanie, to vnfrequent. 1708J. Philips Cyder i. 404 Glad to shun his hostile Gripe, They quit their Thefts, and unfrequent the Fields. |