oftenest
English edit
Adverb edit
oftenest
- (dated) superlative form of often: most often
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 8, The Electon”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
- Brother Samson Subsacrista, one remarks, is ready oftenest with some question, some suggestion, that has wisdom in it.
- 1930, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Invincible,Chapter 8, The Treachery of Abu Batn,
- Each hour La learned new words, all nouns at first, that described each familiar object that appeared oftenest to their view.
Usage notes edit
- Rarely used in contemporary English.
- Declining use since 1910.