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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seldom \Sel"dom\ (s[e^]l"d[u^]m), adv. [Usually, Compar. {More
     seldom} (m[=o]r" s[e^]l"d[u^]m); superl. {Most seldom}
     (m[=o]st" s[e^]l"d[u^]m); but sometimes also, {Seldomer}
     (s[e^]l"d[u^]m*[~e]r), {Seldomest}.] [AS. seldan, seldon,
     seldum, fr. seld rare; akin to OFries. sielden, D. zelden, G.
     selten, OHG. seltan, Icel. sjaldan, Dan. sielden, Sw.


     s[aum]llan, Goth. sildaleiks marvelous.]
     Rarely; not often; not frequently.
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           Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. --Hooker.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seldom \Sel"dom\, a.
     Rare; infrequent. [Archaic.] "A suppressed and seldom anger."
     --Jer. Taylor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seldom
       adv : not often; "we rarely met" [syn: {rarely}] [ant: {frequently}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "seldom":
     abnormally, at infrequent intervals, few, hardly, hardly ever,
     incredibly, infrequently, irregularly, little, not often,
     occasional, occasionally, rare, rarely, scarce, scarcely,
     scarcely ever, seldom if ever, sparsely, sporadic, sporadically,
     uncommon, uncommonly, uncustomarily, unexpectedly, unfrequent,
     unfrequently, unnaturally, unoften, unordinarily, unusually,
     very seldom
  
  

















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