OFTENER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oftener mean? 

• OFTENER (adverb)
  The adverb OFTENER has 1 sense:

1. more often or more frequently

  Familiarity information: OFTENER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFTENER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

More often or more frequently

 Context examples 

It must make him think; and I have no doubt that he oftener endeavours to restrain himself than he would if he had been anything but a clergyman.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

At least once a week, and sometimes oftener, I rode over there, and passed the evening.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They are wanted in the farm much oftener than I can get them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Your pardon, fair sir, said he, but I know you the moment I clap eyes on you, though in sooth I have seen you oftener in steel than in velvet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was very often influenced rightly by you—oftener than I would own at the time.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Dashwood, who did not chuse to dine with them oftener than they dined at the cottage, absolutely refused on her own account; her daughters might do as they pleased.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I have not had a creature call on me since the second week in January, except Charles Hayter, who had been calling much oftener than was welcome.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She sometimes begged Justine to forgive her unkindness, but much oftener accused her of having caused the deaths of her brothers and sister.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sometimes he thought of Judge Miller’s big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley, and of the cement swimming-tank, and Ysabel, the Mexican hairless, and Toots, the Japanese pug; but oftener he remembered the man in the red sweater, the death of Curly, the great fight with Spitz, and the good things he had eaten or would like to eat.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)