Ofte

of'-n (puknos, "tyk", "tæt"): En arkaisk brug for "hyppig": "Dine ofte svagheder" (1 Tim 5,23); sammenlign "by often rumination" (Shakespeare, As You Like It, IV, i, 18); "The often round" (Ben Jonson, The Forest, III); "Of wrench'd or broken limb--an often chance" (Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette).