ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

3. RECURRENT TIME
136. Frequency -- N. frequency, oftness † , oftenness † , commonness; repetition &c 104;
normality &c 80; example (conformity) 82; routine, custom (habit) 613.
regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality &c (exactness)
494; even tenor; system; routine &c (custom) 613; formula; rule &c (form regulation)
697; keynote, standard, model; precedent &c (prototype) 22; conformity &c 82.
V. recur &c 104; do nothing but; keep, keep on.
Adj. frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming † , incessant, perpetual, continual, steady,
constant, thick; uniform; repeated &c 104; customary &c 613 (habit) 613; regular
(normal) 80; according to rule &c (conformable) 82.
common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar.
old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial.
Adv. often, oft; ofttimes † , oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly &c 104; unseldom † , not
unfrequently † ; in quick succession, in rapid succession; many a time and oft; daily,
hourly &c; every day, every hour, every moment &c, perpetually, continually, constantly,
incessantly, without ceasing, at all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night,
day after day, morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably (habit) 613.
most often; commonly &c (habitually) 613.
sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time, there being times
when, toties quoties [Lat.], often enough, when the mood strikes, again and again.
137. Infrequency -- N. infrequency, rareness, rarity; fewness &c 103; seldomness † ;
uncommonness.
V. be rare &c adj..
Adj. unfrequent † , infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few &c 103; 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 [Lat.].
Phr. ein mal kein mal [G.].
138. Periodicity [Regularity of recurrence] -- N. periodicity, intermittence; beat;
oscillation &c 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm; alternation, alternateness, alternativeness,
alternity † .
bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say.
anniversary, jubilee, centenary.
catamenia † , courses, menses, menstrual flux.
[Regularity of return] rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week;
Sunday, Monday &c; months of the year; January &c; feast, fast &c; Christmas, Easter,
New Year's day &c; Allhallows † , Allhallowmas † , All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls'
Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile † , Candlemas † , Dewali,