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ˈoftens, adv. Obs. exc. dial.
[f. often adv. with advb. genitive -s (as in whiles, whilst, etc.), perh. sometimes felt as a plural.]
= often adv.
1567Drant Horace, Ep. i. xix. F vij, How haue your tumultes vyle Full oftens rasde my collor vp, and oftens made me smyle. Ibid. ii. ii. H v, This thinge I oftens talke vpon And oft I thinke of this. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Oftens, offens, the plural of often. Quite common. 1868Atkinson Clevel. Gl., Oftens (pr. off'ns), often, oftentimes. 1889Peacock N.W. Linc. Gl. 381, I ofens heärd tell o' fairies. |