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infrequency|ɪnˈfriːkwənsɪ|
[ad. L. infrequentia, n. of quality f. infrequent-em: see next and -ency.]
The state of being infrequent.
†1. The fact or condition of being unfrequented; uncrowded state or condition; also, Small attendance; paucity, fewness. Obs.
1600Holland Livy xxxix. xviii. 1034 By occasion of the same infrequencie [eadem solitudo] (for that they whose names were presented, neither made answere nor could be found). 1603― Plutarch 1326 It was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither, rather than the dragon that caused the said desert solitarinesse. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 61 Answerable to his small dependancie, and infrequencie of suters. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 161 The infrequency..of that brave bold Legion, whose bands and troups were not full as then, by reason of absences by leave.
2. The fact or condition of being of infrequent occurrence or of recurring at wide intervals; uncommonness, rarity.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 4 The infrequency of the thing (they never happening but at or near the Moons full). 1718Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 369 The accounts..of the infrequency of public baptism among us. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xii. I. 338 The infrequency of marriage, and the ruin of agriculture, affected the principles of population. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Old China, The relish of such exhibitions must be in proportion to the infrequency of going. 1880Flint Princ. Med. 167 The infrequency of gangrene is shown by its having occurred in but one of 133 cases. |