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Threefold   /θrˈifˌoʊld/   Listen
Threefold

adjective
1.
Three times as great or many.  Synonyms: three-fold, treble, triple.  "A threefold increase"
2.
Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities.  Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, treble, two-fold, twofold.  "The office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence" , "Every episode has its double and treble meaning"
adverb
1.
By a factor of three.  Synonym: three times.






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"Threefold" Quotes from Famous Books



... judicial fishes, bite directly! That is very well, you are now in a good way! Only go on, and I will help you to find me guilty, if it be only of simple high-treason. It will then be left to the mercy of your empress to declare me convicted of threefold high-treason! Go ...
— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... for a moment. Michael was very trying; he often exercised her patience most severely. But there was a threefold reason for her forbearance; first, he was her father's cousin, and beloved by him as his own son would have been if he had ever had one; secondly, his ill-health entitled him to a good deal of consideration from any kind-hearted woman; and thirdly, and perhaps principally, he had ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... of the bond in either case has a threefold aspect. The bond is one of blood, of religion, ...
— On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay • Hugh E. Seebohm

... and scent around them flung. Thus decked they cast a glory forth Like the great saints who star the north. The sacrificial altar then Was raised by skilful twice-born men— In shape and figure to behold An eagle with his wings of gold, With twice nine pits and formed threefold. Each for some special God, beside The pillars were the victims tied; The birds that roam the wood, the air, The water, and the land were there, And snakes and things of reptile birth, And healing herbs that spring from earth:— As texts prescribe, ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson

... and good the law of our will. We will not inquire now what secret relations shall one day bring together in an indissoluble unity of light, the good, the true, and the beautiful, and in a unity of darkness, evil, deformity, and falsehood. Let it suffice to have pointed out how a threefold aspiration leads man to God, under the guidance of the conscience, the understanding, and the feelings; and that a threefold rebellion estranges him from God, by sinking him into the dark regions of deformity, error, and evil. ...
— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville


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