Often

OFTEN [ISBE]

OFTEN - of'-n (puknos, "thick," "close"): An archaic usage for "frequent": "Thine often infirmities" (1 Tim 5:23); compare "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).