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Three-fold   /θri-foʊld/   Listen
Three-fold

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






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"Three-fold" Quotes from Famous Books



... that three-fold division of Folly, the counsel of Wisdom is one, and it is one with the sober counsel of Common Sense. What is that counsel? What is the united counsel of wisdom and common sense respecting the past? The answer is easy and ...
— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski

... three-fold in nature. They have a body, a mind—or what St. Paul calls a "soul"—and a spirit. "Soul" is a word whose meaning we have altered so much that I must define what I mean by it and what I think St. Paul meant by it. The soul includes the emotions and the intellect, that part ...
— Sex And Common-Sense • A. Maude Royden

... is difficult for one who has never experienced the three-fold sense of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity until to-night, to express in the right manner the sense of gratitude which I, a complete stranger to you, feel for the readiness and cordiality of the welcome you have extended to me and my companions, accepting ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli

... moment of awakening he was conscious of no individuality: it was, for the time, as if he had passed in slumber from one existence to another, sloughing en passant all his three-fold personality as Marcel Troyon, Michael Lanyard, and the Lone Wolf. Had any one of these names been uttered in his hearing just then it would have meant nothing to him—or little more than nothing: he was for the ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

... "thoroughly furnished!" Grace is no scanty thing, doled out in pittances. It is a glorious treasury, which the key of prayer can always unlock, but never empty. A fountain, "full, flowing, ever flowing, overflowing." Mark these three ALL's in this precious promise. It is a three-fold link in a golden chain, let down from a throne of grace by a God of grace. "All-grace!"—"all-sufficiency!" in "all things!" and these to "abound." Oh! precious thought! My want cannot impoverish that inexhaustible treasury of grace! ...
— The Faithful Promiser • John Ross Macduff


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