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/frˈikwənt/ /frˈikwˌɛnt/ Listen

adjective

Frequent adj.

Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers."

Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. "He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government."

Full; crowded; thronged. (Obs.) "'T is Caesar's will to have a frequent senate."

Often or commonly reported. (Obs.) "'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci."

verb

Frequent v. t. (past & past part. frequented; pres. part. frequenting)

To visit often; to resort to often or habitually; as, to frequent a tavern. "He frequented the court of Augustus."

To make full; to fill. (Obs.) "With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite."

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... well as of its frequent associate, anger, have been dwelt upon by writers philosophical, religious, and medical. "Worry," says one author, "is the root of all cowardly passions,—jealousy, fear, the belittling of self, and all the introspective ...

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