a. rare. [f. TRI- + -FOLD: cf. BIFOLD.] Threefold, triple.

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1579.  Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 142. Ther is amongst men a trifold kinde of life, Actiue … Speculatiue…. The third is … a lewde lyfe, and idle and vaine life.

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1867.  J. B. Rose, trans. Virgil’s Æneid, 228. The trifold janitor Of Stygian Orcus.

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1900.  G. H. Kingsley, Sport & Trav., 416. The trifold affection existing between the three.

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