unˈcommonly, adv.
[Cf. uncommon a. and un-1 11.]
1. not uncommonly, not rarely; pretty frequently.
| 1747 J. Smith Mem. Wool Pref. a j note, A Person more than ordinarily concerned, and not uncommonly employed. 1883 Stubbs Med. & Mod. Hist. xv. (1886) 343 We are not uncommonly told that Henry VII. had not in his own person the shadow of hereditary right. |
2. In an uncommon or unusual degree; unusually, remarkably.
| 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 10 Otherwise it was thought impossible, that he could be so uncommonly munificent to a young man, no ways related to him. 1794 Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho liv, There was something in his countenance uncommonly interesting. 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxiv, He wrote an uncommonly handsome hand. 1885 Truth 28 May 847/2 The high-priced nobodies who..do so uncommonly little. |