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Definition of Tenfold
1. Adverb. By ten times as much. "The population increased tenfold"
2. Adjective. Containing ten or ten parts.
Definition of Tenfold
1. a. & adv. In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
Definition of Tenfold
1. Adjective. containing ten parts ¹
2. Adjective. ten times as much ¹
3. Adverb. by ten times as much ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenfold
1. an amount ten times as great as a given unit [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenfold
Literary usage of Tenfold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The life and ... adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1884)
"But I was in tenfold more horror of mind upon account of my former convictions,
and the having returned from them to the resolutions I had wickedly taken at ..."
2. The Seasons by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch, John Aikin (1811)
"... Where drought and famine starve the blasted year: Fired by the torch of noon
to tenfold rage, The infuriate hill that shoots the pillared flame; ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... which must render tenfold more difficult all his attempts to satisfy his subjects.
external influences which nothing but a mind, strong in its high and ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1842)
"... is taken : " To my own beloved country I gladly and exultingly return, with
attachments tenfold i»tron¡rer, if possible, to her matchless institutions, ..."
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