oft

[awft, oft] /ɔft, ɒft/

adverb, Literary.

Origin

before 900; Middle English oft(e), Old English oft; cognate with Old Frisian ofta, Old Saxon oft(o), German oft, Old Norse opt

Examples from the web for oft

Another oft quoted piece of advice is to notify the chair once you're at the campus visit stage.
And because when people are in grad school the loans for undergrad are too oft in deferment.
Contrary to the oft proffered explanation, advances in medical technology do not explain the constantly rising prices.
It corrects some of the oft-repeated mistakes written about her life.
Beets may get a bad rap in the culinary world, but their heath benefits have many reconsidering the oft-overlooked vegetable.
The oft-repeated refrain that more ice makes the drink cooler is an error.
These oft-feared sea creatures grow extremely slowly, taking years to reach maturity.
The oft-cited drawback to space-based power has been the cost of setting up the infrastructure.
Seen from this perspective, the oft-cited metric of low to no turnout of identifiable demonstrators is beside the point.
To reporters who had followed the campaign, it was an old, oft-written story.

British Dictionary definitions for oft

oft

/ɒft/

adverb

short for often (archaic or poetic except in combinations such as oft-repeated and oft-recurring)

Word Origin

Old English oft; related to Old High German ofto

OFT

abbreviation (in Britain)

Office of Fair Trading

Word Origin and History for oft

adv.

Old English oft "often, frequently," from Proto-Germanic *ofta- "frequently" (cf. Old Frisian ofta, Danish ofte, Old High German ofto, German oft, Old Norse opt, Gothic ufta "often"), of unknown origin. Archaic except in compounds (e.g. oft-told), and replaced by its derivative often.