a. rare. [f. L. triplicāt-, ppl. stem of triplicāre to TRIPLICATE + -IVE.] Having the quality of tripling.
1839–53. Bailey, Festus (ed. 5), 509. The esoteric truths which nature veiled, Of the one triplicative essence.
1902. The Academy, LXIII. 19 July, 87/2. Note the double adjectives: ‘faint and flickering,’ ‘riper and sounder,’ ‘splendid and inexhaustible.’ This duplicative and triplicative pother of words never stops.
