• Occasionally

    Pronunciation

    Origin

    occasional + -ly

    Full definition of occasionally

    Adverb

    occasionally

    1. From time to time; now and then; once in a while; irregularly.
      • 1592, Gabriel Harvey, "Fovre Letters", Miscellaneous Tracts, page 56Were nothing els diÅ¿courÅ¿ively inÅ¿erted (as Å¿ome little elÅ¿e occaÅ¿ionally preÅ¿ented it Å¿elfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareÅ¿t mechanicall uÅ¿es,...
      • 1619, John Richardson, John Toland, The canon of the New Testament Vindicated, page 30I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaÅ¿ionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...
      • 1639, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the Five Books of Moses, the Book of the Psalmes and the Song of Songs, page 177.God Å¿etteth no houres for the morning or evening Å¿acrifice because they may occaÅ¿ionally be changed.
      • 1855, Horace Mann, "On the Statistical Position of Religious Bodies in England and Wales," Journal of the Statistical Society of London, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 152,Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
      • 1978, Stephen R. Graubard, "Twenty Years of 'Daedalus'," Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 32, no. 3, p. 18,The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
      • 2007, Matt Gouras/AP, "Wildfires Rage in Montana," Time, 17 Aug,Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
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