1. Seldom; not often; as things rarely seen.
2. Finely; nicely. [little used.]
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.
2. Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2.
Fewness Roget’s Thesaurus §103
N. fewness, paucity, small number, small quantity, rarity, infrequency, handful, maniple, minority, exiguity, reduction, weeding, elimination, sarculation|, decimation, eradication
Adj. few, scant, scanty, thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous, infrequent, rari nantes, hardly any, scarcely any, to be counted on one's fingers, reduced, unrepeated
Adv. rarely, here and there
Infrequency Roget’s Thesaurus §137
V. be rare
Adj. unfrequent, infrequent, rare, rare as a blue diamond, few, scarce, almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience, not since adam, scarce as hen's teeth, one in a million, few and far between
Adv. seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly, not often, not much, infrequently, unfrequently, unoften, scarcely, scarcely ever, hardly ever, once in a blue moon, once, once in a blue moon, once in a million years, once for all, once in a way, pro hac vice
Phr. ein mal kein mal
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0 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “rarely”
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.