oftness

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English

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Etymology

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From oft +‎ -ness.

Noun

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oftness (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, rare) The quality of happening often; frequency.
    • 1888, Richard Hooker, John Keble, The Works, volume 2, page 411:
      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.

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