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  1. adverb Not often; infrequently or rarely. See Usage Note at rarely.
  2. adjective Archaic Infrequent; rare.

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  • Going away seldom, and reading little, had narrowed her horizon. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
  • But this happened very seldom, and Kharrak Singh was generally to be found on the Residency verandah, where Gerrard, immersed in business, had to answer his unceasing questions, instil such rudiments of useful information as he could, and generally endeavour to prepare the child for the great future before him. —  The Path to Honour
  • Only very seldom, and that as a cure for the ills of solitude, do they have converse with women. —  The City of the Sun
  • The Norwegian hunters also visit the place seldom, the main reasons being the inaccessibility of the shallow east coast, and the want of harbours. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • Change of clothes takes place seldom, and even when the outer dress is clean, new and well cut, of carefully-chosen beautiful skins, the under-dress is very dirty, and vermin numerous enough, though less so than might have been expected. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
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  1. Middle English, from Old English seldum, alteration of seldan.

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  1. Early modern English also seldome, also *selden, seelden; from Middle English seldom, seldum, selden, selde, from Anglo-Saxon seldan, seldon, seldum (= OFries. sielden = Middle Dutch selden, Dutch zelden = Middle Low German selden, Low German selden, sellen = Old High German seltan, Middle High German G. selten = Icelandic sjaldan = Swedish sällan (for *saldan) = Danish sjelden), at rare times, seldom, orig. dative plural (suffix -um) or weak dative singular (suffix -an) of *seld, adjective, rare: see seld, adv. The termination -om is the same as in whilom; it once existed also, in part, in little, muckle (litlum, miclum,) adv.
  2. Early modern English also seldome, seldoome; from late Middle English seldome, seldone (= Middle Dutch selden); from seldom, adv.
 

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