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Seldomer
Seldem Sel"dem, adv. [Usually, Compar. More seldom; superl. Most seldom; but sometimes also, Seldomer, Seldomest.] [AS. seldan, seldon, seldum, fr. seld rare; akin to OFries. sielden, D. zelden, G. selten, OHG. seltan, Icel. sjaldan, Dan. sielden, Sw. s["a]llan, Goth. sildaleiks marvelous.] Rarely; not often; not frequently. Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. --Hooker.
Seldomest
Seldem Sel"dem, adv. [Usually, Compar. More seldom; superl. Most seldom; but sometimes also, Seldomer, Seldomest.] [AS. seldan, seldon, seldum, fr. seld rare; akin to OFries. sielden, D. zelden, G. selten, OHG. seltan, Icel. sjaldan, Dan. sielden, Sw. s["a]llan, Goth. sildaleiks marvelous.] Rarely; not often; not frequently. Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. --Hooker.

Meaning of Seldome from wikipedia

- tempest of violent raine, lightning, and thunder, the like wherof hath been seldome seene. With the appeerance of an horrible shaped thing, sensibly perceiued...
- he tells Henry, "but for the necesitie of new Lawes, which would be but seldome". In the True Law, James maintains that the king owns his realm as a feudal...
- Which in this Realme hitherto the Lorde be thanked hath ben moste rare and seldome comytted or practysed... Henry's essentially ad hoc augmentation of the...
- wrote: [S]uch was the conceit of firme peace and amitie, as that there was seldome or never a sword worne, and a Peece [firearm] seldomer, except for a Deere...
- honest neighbours, if happely wee bee without wives, alone at home (as seldome we are) and with them we play at Dice and Cards, sorting our selves according...
- and places wherein he lieth when he retireth for feare; and therefore seldome is he caught. But when he list to looke like himselfe and be in his owne...
- both horse and foot pell mell that such a heape in such an occasion was seldome scene that by the very thronge severall of them perished, advancinge forwarde...
- he tells Henry, "but for the necesitie of new Lawes, which would be but seldome". In the True Law James states that the king owns his realm as a feudal...
- that they themselves doe more deserve to be sharplie decyplined; for they seldome use to chuse unto themselves the doinges of good men, for the ornamentes...
- soon opened a boarding school at George Newton's house: "our Family being seldome less than Twenty, and many times Thirty; My School usually Fifty or Sixty...