unfrequency
Noun

unfrequency (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The state of being unfrequent; infrequency.
    • 1761, Gilbert Burnet, Thoughts on Education, London: D. Wilson, page 44:
      The unfrequency of the exercising boyes in versions and translations, is also a great error: for this will be found a better mean to inure them to Latine than either grammaires, lessons, or confabulations.
    • 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, London: J. Dodsley, page 48:
      These circumstances, I mean the constant habit of authority, and the unfrequency of elections, have tended very much to draw the House of Commons towards the character of a standing Senate.
    • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224 ↗, pages 238–239 ↗:
      I was three weeks in London, and saw her (for London) very often. I had every attention from the Frasers that could be reasonably expected. I dare say I was not reasonable in carrying with me hopes of an intercourse at all like that of Mansfield. It was her manner, however, rather than any unfrequency of meeting.
    • 1828, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter IV, in Fanshawe:
      No demand had that day been made upon the hospitality of the Hand and Bottle; and the landlord was just then murmuring at the unfrequency of employment.



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