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Manifold writing

Manifold \Man"i*fold\, a. [AS. manigfeald. See Many, and Fold.]

  1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.

    O Lord, how manifold are thy works!
    --Ps. civ. 24.

    I know your manifold transgressions.
    --Amos v. 1

  2. 2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number. ``The manifold wisdom of God.''
    --Eph. iii. 10. ``The manifold grace of God.''
    --1 Pet. iv. 10.

    Manifold writing, a process or method by which several copies, as of a letter, are simultaneously made, sheets of coloring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred; writing several copies of a document at once by use of carbon paper or the like.