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Definition of Threefold

1. Adverb. By a factor of three. "Our rent increased threefold in the past five years"

2. Adjective. Three times as great or many. "A threefold increase"

3. Adjective. Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities. "Every episode has its double and treble meaning"

Definition of Threefold

1. a. Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.

Definition of Threefold

1. Adjective. three times as great ¹

2. Adjective. triple ¹

3. Adjective. (context: Wicca) relating to the threefold law ¹

4. Adverb. by a factor of three ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Threefold

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Threefold

three hots and a cot three hundred three o'clock three of a kind three ring circus three sheets to the wind three skips of a louse three thousand three times three true outcomes

three up, three down three wise men threedimensional threefin threefins threefold (current term) threefold law threefoldness threeish threeling

threenesses threep threepeat threepeated threepeating threeped threepence threepences threepenny threepenny-bit

Literary usage of Threefold

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications (1848)
"If he cannot command me in that circumstance of time to worship God, this or that day, can he command me to the worship itself? A threefold Peace. ..."

2. A Beginner's History of Philosophy by Herbert Ernest Cushman (1911)
"The threefold World' of Kant—Subjective States, Things-in-Themselves, and Phenomena. In his search for those indispensable conditions of knowledge of the ..."

3. The Life of Adoniram Judson by Edward Judson (1883)
"THE threefold CORD. ECCLES. iv. 12. Written by a Missionary in Burmah. You hope, my dear brother, ... I present you, therefore, with the threefold cord. ..."

4. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... it is probable that this threefold division was clearly established.3 The three- How to destroy this threefold division so as to unite the i?on ..."

5. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"The adoption of a classification of psychological facts based on studies of nervous processes is a frank abandonment of the historic threefold ..."

6. A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson by Francis Wayland (1853)
"E. THE threefold CORD. ECCLES. iT.li Written by a Missionary in Burmah. You hope, my dear brother, ... I present you, therefore, with the threefold cord ..."

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