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Definition of Twifold
1. a. Twofold; double.
Definition of Twifold
1. Adjective. (archaic) Twofold. ¹
2. Adverb. (archaic) In a twofold manner or measure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twifold
1. twofold [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twifold
Literary usage of Twifold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"Then I awoke withal, And within my heart the blameless twifold the thought did
fall, 50 Whether casting myself from a-shipboard I should die there down in ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Der. two-edged; two-fold, a modem substitution for ME twifold, Early Eng. Psalter,
ed. Stevenson, Ps. cviii. ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... NOLE that lyes On drinke a sleepe so long, May pardon craue, although His
tongue trip twifold wrong. OLD NOLL, subs, (old).—See quot 1696. £.1696. ..."
4. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1906)
"twifold, William, missing since the battle, August 27, 1776. Waddle, William,
April, 1776; discharged January 1, 1778; resided in Westmoreland county in ..."
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