Middle English Dictionary Entry
often-tīme adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | often-tīme adv. |
| Etymology | From often adv. & tīme n. Modeled on ofte-sīthe. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Many a time, frequently, often.
Associated quotations
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.388 : Or elles often tyme I hadde been spilt.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)283b/a : Often tyme hors dyeþ by venyme þerof.
- c1405 Chaucer CT.Co.(Elsm)A.4390 : For often tyme he foond his box ful bare.
- c1415 Chaucer CT.WB.(Lnsd 851)D.641 : For wiþ often time he wolde preche.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)107/17 : It befalleth often tyme þat the gode dyamand leseth his vertue be synne.
- a1450 Chauliac(4) (Cai 336/725)20/22 : Þei surmounten often-tyme þere causen.
- c1450(c1390) Chaucer Ven.(Benson-Robinson)44 : Subtil Jelosie..Ful often tyme causeth desturbyng.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)prol.168 : Þe crede..we at prime often-tyme synge and rede.
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)8/13 : Þe Rurals offtene-tyme þrowyne owt hur fysches to fedyne wt hur swyne.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)25/12 : Feere also & drede..oftyntyme hath causyd repentaunce.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)54/96 : Yf þou vse oftyn tyme to swere, it may gendyr custom in the.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)60a/b : It nediþ noon oþir cure but for to reiteren þe same medicyne as often tyme as it nediþ.