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English
Etymology
From Middle English sevenefold, from Old English seofonfeald. Equivalent to seven + -fold.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sevenfold (not comparable)
- Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.
1908, W B M Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
1963 September, “French Railways' quarter-century expansion”, in Modern Railways, pages 189–190:Long-distance rail travel is increasing despite a similar sevenfold rise in ownership of private transport throughout the country.
- Having seven parts; composed of seven items.
1908, “The Seven Against Thebes”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 120:Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!
Related terms
Translations
multiplied by seven (adjective)
having seven parts (adjective)
Adverb
sevenfold (not comparable)
- By a factor of seven.
Translations
by a factor of seven (adverb)
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References
- “sevenfold”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “sevenfold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
Adjective
sevenfold
- Alternative form of sevenefold
Adverb
sevenfold
- Alternative form of sevenefold