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Definition of Sixfold
1. Adverb. By a factor of six. "The population of this town increased sixfold when gold was found in the surrounding hills"
2. Adjective. Having six units or components.
Definition of Sixfold
1. a. Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.
Definition of Sixfold
1. Adjective. Having six component parts. ¹
2. Adverb. Times six, multiplied by six. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sixfold
1. being six times as great as [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sixfold
Literary usage of Sixfold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1865)
"'»creased from 257 to 1593 being After studying there for some time, he went to !
more than sixfold mh ve years ; while the ..."
2. The Books of the Old Testament: A Short Introduction by J. H. Weatherall (1902)
"The sixfold Book. 2. Some Literary features: (a) Disproportions in the Narratives;
... Characteristics : (a) J; (b) E ; (c) D; (d) PI The sixfold Book. ..."
3. A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C. by Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids (1900)
"The Category of Form under a sixfold Aspect.] [967] (i.) The sphere of visible
forms is form cognizable by sight, (ii.) The sphere of sounds is form ..."
4. The Bible for Home Reading by Claude Goldsmid Montefiore (1900)
"A sixfold woe.—The second part of the fifth chapter may date from the same period.
It contains the six famous denunciations of social unrighteousness. ..."
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