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• five-fold

語源

From 中期英語 fiffold, from 古期英語 fīffeald. Equivalent to five +‎ -fold.

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形容詞

fivefold (not comparable)

1. Five times as much or as many.
2. In a group or series of five; consisting of five together as one; quintuple.
   • 1885, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 246:

     [W]e pay twofold adoration to the goddess who grants increase and perfection. ... Fivefold adoration to her who exists in the form of Wisdom.

派生語

副詞

fivefold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of five.

参照

• “fivefold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.