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Often

of ´' n ( πυκνός , puknós , "thick," "close"): An archaic usage for "frequent": "Thine often infirmities" ( 1 Timothy 5:23 ); compare "by often rumination" (Shakespeare, As You Like It , IV, i, 18); "The often round" (Ben Jonson, The Forest , III); "Of wrench'd or broken limb - an often chance" (Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette ).