ˈoftentime, adv. (a.) rare.
[f. often adv. + time, as an extended form of oft-time.]
= next. (In quot. 1876 as adj. Frequent.)
| c 1400 Mandeville (1839) ii. 14, I haue often tyme seen it. c 1450 Sir Beues (MS. C) 155/3335 Ȝe wot alle..That often tyme Saber þe hore Hath me greuyd full sore. 1853 Trench Proverbs ii. 28 Oftentime the proverb in its more popular form is so greatly superior to the same in this its Latin..dress. 1876 Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xviii. 475 Where Cosmo of the Medici had his oftentime habitation. |