Both Uses of
infrequent
in
Middlemarch
- This was a not infrequent procedure with Mr. Vincy—to be rash in jovial assent, and on becoming subsequently conscious that he had been rash, to employ others in making the offensive retractation.†
Chpt 4
- When the drawing-room door opened and Dorothea entered, there was a sort of contrast not infrequent in country life when the habits of the different ranks were less blent than now.†
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
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(infrequent) not frequent; i.e., not occurring at regular short intervals