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▪ I. tenfold, a., adv.|ˈtɛnfəʊld|
[OE. tíenfeald.]
A. adj.
1. Ten times as great or as much; ten times increased or intensified; also indefinitely, many times as great.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 135 His michelnesse was unhiled on ten fold wise and mo. 1557Recorde Whetst. B ij, Decupla..10 to 1: 20 to 2... Tennefolde. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. iii. ii. 6 Thy Neece and I..cannot passionate our tenfold griefe, With foulded Armes. 1625N. Carpenter Geog. Del. ii. ix. (1635) 149 The Aire..being by a Tenne-fold proportion thinner then the Water. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 412 His mind reacted with tenfold force on the spirit of the age.
b. As predicate, passing into substantive use; cf. hundredfold C.
1769Home Fatal Discov. iv, Euran! whate'er the lavish Pict has promis'd To tempt thee to betray thy master's house, Tenfold I'll give thee to preserve thy faith. 1832Southey Hist. Penins. War III. xxxvii. 219 But the loss had been tenfold of what was there stated.
2. Ranged in ten folds, or ten deep. nonce-use.
1807J. Barlow Columb. i. 316 Stretch'd o'er the broad-back'd hills, in long array, The tenfold Alleganies meet the day.
B. adv. Ten times (in amount or degree).
1538Elyot, Decuplo..if it be an aduerbe, it sygnifyeth tenne times, or tenne fold. Decuplum, like wyse. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. vii. 15, I will reward thee Once for thy sprightly comfort, and ten-fold For thy good valour. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 705 The grieslie terrour..So speaking and so threatning, grew ten fold More dreadful and deform. 1827Syd. Smith Wks. (1850) 485 Is not the Church of England tenfold more rich and more strong than when the separation took place? 1884Tennyson Becket i. iii, False to himself, but ten-fold false to me!
Hence ˈtenfoldness, the condition or quality of being tenfold.
1891J. E. H. Thomson Books which influenced our Lord iii. i. 382 There is no explanation of the tenfoldness exhibited in the symbols.
▪ II. ˈtenfold, v.
[f. prec.]
trans. To increase ten times; loosely, to multiply indefinitely.
1858Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. xiii. (1864) 420 Transforming the world, tenfolding its forces and uses, and all that constitutes its value. 1858― Serm. New Life viii. (1869) 102 The capacity of religion..may be fivefolded, tenfolded, indefinitely increased. 1902P. Kropotkin Mut. Aid vi. (1904) 208 It tenfolded their forces. |