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Meaning of occasionally | Babel Free

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

Equivalents

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