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/əˈkeɪʒənəli/ · adverb
On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes..
God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
I had met Lord Ossory in the forenoon, who had come to town occasionally.
Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
[N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world […].
Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]
Use occasionally when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Occasionally means On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes..
Common synonyms include at times, ever and anon, every once in a while, every now and then.
Possible antonyms include usually, rarely.
God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
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