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oftness

noun

Etymology

From oft + -ness.

  1. inherited from *uftō✻ — “often”
  2. inherited from *oftu✻
  3. inherited from oft — “often”
  4. inherited from oft
  5. suffixed as oftness — “oft + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of happening often

    The quality of happening often; frequency.

    • Often fasting which was a virtue in John's disciples could not in them of itself be a vice, and therefore not the oftness of their fasting but their hypocrisy therein was blamed.

The neighborhood

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