a. (adv.) Sc. and north. dial. Obs. Also 4 thrine-, 5 thryn-, 6 trin-, trene-. [Assimilation of the earlier thrifald, OE. þriefeald, THREEFOLD, to THRIN.] = THREEFOLD a.; triple, treble.
In 1st quot. (Fairfax MS.) as adv. = THREEFOLD B. 1.
13[?]. Cursor M., 26986 (Cott.). Þis hope þan mai be thrinefald [Fairf. vnderstande þis hope þrinfalde].
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, vi. (Thomas), 390. God … in substance bot ane Is, & thrinfald in-to personis. Ibid., xxxvi. (Baptista), 463. He þe thrinfald crone sal euir bruk fore his wardone.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, VII. 141. The thrynfald buk is bot this brokyn land.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IV. ix. 78. The thrinfald goddes Proserpina.
1552. Lyndesay, Monarche, 4407. Two and thretty gude papis … Ressauit the crown of Martyrdome, Bot nocht the Thrinfald Diadame.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xxi. 19. Thay trinfauld Tratours Hes steirit vp this stryfe.
