threefold

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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adjective three times as great or many
adjective having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; ; - R.W.Emerson; -Frederick Harrison
adverb by a factor of three

From Middle English threfold, from Old English þrīfeald. Equivalent to three + -fold.

It ought to occupy threefold more time than it does. — McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey
Not permanently, doubtless--but with the span of life lengthened threefold at least. — Tarrano the Conqueror, Ray Cummings
Denny knows a quotation which says-- ‘What dire offence from harmless causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trefoil things.’ He says this means that all great events come from three things--threefold, like the clover or trefoil, and the causes are always harmless. — The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers, E. (Edith) Nesbit

treble, three-fold, triple

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