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- adverb Most
often (superlative form ofoft : mostoft .), (chiefly poetic and dialectal)
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Examples
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Their pastime or recreation is prayers, their exercise drinking, yet herein so religiously addicted that they serve God oftest when they are drunk.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Her oftest gossipings are sabbath-day's journeys, where, (though an enemy to superstition,) she will go in pilgrimage five mile to a silenced minister, when there is a better sermon in her own parish.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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QUOTATION: Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreckd.
Quotations 1919
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Rocks and hills, 150. caves lakes fens bogs, 228. fleeting air and desert, 181. music hath charms to soften, 294. pure gold, water nectar and, 44. throne of, robe of clouds, 553. whereon greatest men have oftest wrecked, 240.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Affliction, therefore, is a seal of adoption, no sign of reprobation; for the purest corn is cleanest fanned, the finest gold is oftest tried, the sweetest grape is hardest pressed, and the truest
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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En mand beholder oftest sit slægtsnavn, hvorimod kvinder tager hendes ægtemands ...
Blogbot - forsiden 2010
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At ville forklare en filosofisk teoris eller idés gyldighed med henvisning til dens ophavsmands psykologiske sindstilstand bliver som oftest (hvilket alle de ovennævnte eksempler illustrerer) en undskyldning for ikke at beskæftige sig seriøst med teoriens eller idéens indhold; dens substans.
Blogbot - forsiden 2010
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Det dominererede filosofiske tendens i dag er tværtimod - naturlisme og materialisme, af en art der minder om det I bedriver (dog oftest mere velargumenteret).
Blogbot - forsiden 2010
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En mand beholder oftest sit slægtsnavn, hvorimod kvinder tager hendes ægtemands ...
Blogbot - forsiden 2010
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En mand beholder oftest sit slægtsnavn, hvorimod kvinder tager hendes ægtemands ...
Blogbot - forsiden 2010
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