a. and adv. Obs. [f. TREBLE + -FOLD.] a. adj. Three times as great or numerous; threefold. b. adv. Three times as much, thrice over.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, I. iii. (Skeat), l. 152. Treble folde so mokell muste I suffer, ere tyme come of myne ease.
1561. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer, I. (1577), C vij. They speake accompanying euery worde with certaine treblefolde sighes.
1587. Q. Eliz., in H. Campbell, Love Lett. Mary Q. Scots, App. (1824), 62. God reward thee trebblefold in the double for the most troublesome charge so well discharged.
