Literary notes about frequently (AI summary)
In literature, "frequently" is employed as a flexible adverb that indicates recurring actions or events, whether in the realm of personal habits, natural phenomena, or rhetorical devices. Authors use it to underscore the regularity or habitual nature of a thought, behavior, or occurrence—from the reflective reminiscences in memoirs [1, 2, 3] and dialogues revealing character traits [4, 5, 6] to its use in technical or historical narratives that note repeated patterns in nature or society [7, 8, 9]. In both descriptive and analytical texts, the term helps convey not only quantitative regularity—as seen in discussions about language frequency or measured phenomena [10, 11]—but also serves as a stylistic marker to emphasize persistent human experiences and actions across a diverse range of literary genres [12, 13, 14].
- The remembrance of these times of happiness and innocence frequently returning to my mind, both ravish and affect me.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - I frequently sat down to meat with thankfulness, and admired the hand of God’s providence, which had thus spread my table in the wilderness.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - I frequently did from myself what it was his duty to have done; I rendered to the French, who applied to me, all the services in my power.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - We saw and visited each other almost daily, very frequently in our respective homes.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner - ROXANE: Yes, frequently.
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand - Sunday afternoons she frequently went for a walk with Nancy.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter - This last sum, indeed, does not exceed what frequently earned by common labourers in many country parishes.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - This frequently took place; but a high wind quickly dried the earth, and the season became far more pleasant than it had been.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The bone of the shaft is frequently fractured.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess - The word absolute is at present frequently used to denote that something can be predicated of a thing considered in itself and intrinsically.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - “Now, in English, the letter which most frequently occurs is e. Afterwards, succession runs thus: a o i d h n r s t u
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe - The word which when she speaks, presents itself to her mind, is frequently opposite to that of which she means to make use.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - So that the hearing is as frequently deluded as the sight, from the same causes almost, as he that hears bells, will make them sound what he list.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - I am to represent, in the Character of a fine Lady Dancing, all the Distortions which are frequently taken for Graces in Mien and Gesture.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
