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occasionally

Adverb CEFR C1 Standard
əˈkeɪʒənəli

Definitions

  1. On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
  2. On an occasion, accidentally, by chance.
    obsolete
  3. On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.
    obsolete

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Examples

“God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.”
“Some perhaps worship⟳ only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.”
“The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.”
“Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.”
“Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.”
“[N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand⟳, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe⟳, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world […].”
“I had met Lord Ossory in the forenoon, who had come⟳ to town occasionally.”
“Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]”
“I think⟳ it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have⟳ occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge⟳ it any part of the Canon...”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

occidentally occipitally occipitofrontally occipitolaterally occlusally occlusively

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