Meaning & use
oft
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often; frequently (a literary or archaic word).
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The oft-repeated warning went unheeded.
Poets have oft compared love to a flame.
A note on using this word
Oft is rarely used alone in modern speech but survives in compound forms like 'oft-cited' and 'oft-repeated.'
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oftenfrequently
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