a. and adv. [f. TWELVE + -FOLD. Cf. OE. twelf-feald adj.]

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  A.  adj. a. Twelve times as great or as much.

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  b.  Composed of twelve parts or divisions, or (in quot. 1854) of twelve kinds.

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1557.  Recorde, Whetst., B ij. Duodecupla, 12 to 1:… Tweluefold.

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c. 1586.  C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXXVIII. xxii. The twelvefold race of godly Israell.

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1854.  Chr. G. Rossetti, Paradise, iv. The Tree of Life … with its twelvefold fruits.

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  B.  adv. Twelve times in amount.

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1660.  R. Coke, Power & Subj., 150. First fruits shall be paid upon the mass of S. Martin; he who shall not then pay them, shall forfeit forty shillings, and pay twelvefold the value of the fruits.

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1910.  19th Cent., Feb., 373. In Queensland the amount of sugar grown by white labour has increased twelvefold.

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