英和和英

発音

• ハイフネーション: un‧fre‧quen‧cy

名詞

unfrequency (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The state of being unfrequent; infrequency.
   • 1761, Gilbert Burnet, Thoughts on Education^[1], 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, volume III, London: 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^[2]:

     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.