Literary notes about frequency (AI summary)
In literature, "frequency" is a versatile term that authors deploy both quantitatively and metaphorically. It often quantifies regular occurrences in various disciplines—for example, indicating how often public assemblies or medical phenomena appear ([1], [2], [3]) or comparing rates in scientific contexts ([4], [5]). At the same time, the term conveys habitual actions or recurring themes in narrative and reflective texts, such as the regularity of visits, mistakes, or even dreams ([6], [7], [8]). By invoking "frequency," writers can underscore the predictability or commonness of events, imbuing their work with a precise quantitative flavor or a subtly nuanced commentary on human behavior ([9], [10]).
- The greater or less frequency with which lawful assemblies should occur depends on so many considerations that no exact rules about them can be given.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The radio device actually is a radio frequency spectroscope.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - The interval between two notes is the ratio of the frequency of the higher note to the frequency of the lower note.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - Type C exceeded Types B, D and E with a ratio of about 7:5 in frequency of occurrence.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - Physical causes of the greater frequency of inguinal and femoral herniae.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise - Utterson became so used to the unvarying character of these reports, that he fell off little by little in the frequency of his visits.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - The frequency of mistakes like those just mentioned is well known.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - This statement is certainly exaggerated; but it is one more proof of the frequency of mystic dreams among the primitives.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim - For when Pietro asserts the "ever more frequency" of tempests in Sicily, the old man professes to know nothing more of the fact, but by hearsay.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - It appears to me that I have rather oppressed you of late by the frequency of my letters.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
