sevenfold

English

Etymology

From Middle English sevenefold, from Old English seofonfeald. Equivalent to seven + -fold.

Adjective

sevenfold (not comparable)

  1. Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
      “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”.
  2. Having seven parts; composed of seven items.
    • 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), The Seven Against Thebes in Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 120.
      Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!

Translations

Adverb

sevenfold (not comparable)

  1. By a factor of seven.

Translations

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References


Middle English

Adjective

sevenfold

  1. Alternative form of sevenefold

Adverb

sevenfold

  1. Alternative form of sevenefold
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