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Sevenfold

Sevenfold \Sev"en*fold`\, a. Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount. ``Sevenfold rage.''
--Milton.

Sevenfold

Sevenfold \Sev"en*fold`\, adv. Seven times as much or as often.

Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.
--Gen. iv. 15.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sevenfold

Old English seofonfeald; see seven + -fold.

Wiktionary
sevenfold

a. 1 Seven times as much; multiplied by seven. 2 Having seven parts. adv. By a factor of seven.

WordNet
sevenfold
  1. adj. having seven units or components [syn: septuple]

  2. adv. seven times; "the population of this village increased sevenfold in the past 100 years"

Usage examples of "sevenfold".

Assuredly we ought with anxious deliberation and abundant consideration, having first invoked the Sevenfold Spirit, that it may burn in our musings as an illuminating fire, fervently to prepare a way without hinderance, that the bestower of all things may be cheerfully worshipped in return for the gifts that He has bestowed, that our neighbour may be relieved of his burden, and that the guilt contracted by sinners every day may be redeemed by the atonement of almsgiving.

Supported by blindly played Chopin, seven trunks bent for ward with straight arms and knees, making one and the same soft-skinned boyish bottom jut sevenfold into the well-heated room.

What is the sevenfold stockingcap-maddened ascent of the Feldberg compared to six contact-crazed light sockets!

Through all his pretences and sevenfold hypocrisy Glendower penetrated at once into his real motives: he was not to be duped by assurances of friendship which he knew the very dissimilarities between their natures rendered impossible.

The subject demonstrated a sevenfold increase in serotonin receptors in hippocampal and amygdala tissue, compared to controls.

And then the Paradise, with all its sevenfold glory, is just that place and that life which God hath prepared for them that love Him and serve Him as Dante did.

Scarcely had they been summoned to the bar than the whole court darkened sevenfold more hideously than before, a murmuring and great confusion arose around the throne, and Death became more livid than ever.

Opposite the door, upon a flame-encompassed throne sat the Evil One with the lost archangels around him, seated on benches of terrible fire, according to the rank they formerly bore in the region of light - the lovely whelps - it would only be a waste of words to attempt to describe how atrociously ugly they were, and the longer I gazed upon them, sevenfold more frightful did they become.

Whereupon he frowned until the court became sevenfold darker than before.

We too have a blessed event to rejoice in: the birth of our sevenfold daughter Lova.

Alex and Temith negotiated the winding staircase that ran up the interior, past a ceramicist on the ground floor, up past a paperworks, then a painter, and finally up to a room with the sevenfold seal of a thaumaturgist upon the wooden door.

Opposite the door, upon a flame-encompassed throne sat the Evil One with the lost archangels around him, seated on benches of terrible fire, according to the rank they formerly bore in the region of light - the lovely whelps - it would only be a waste of words to attempt to describe how atrociously ugly they were, and the longer I gazed upon them, sevenfold more frightful did they become.

But I who am more ready to go forward than backward, never continue in one stay, because changes sevenfold pass over me.

And even did the Father Indissoluble send out fragments of himself to partake of the AppreĀ­hension of Creation from within as full partners with mortals of Silistra, and upon this decision came into being the seed-sowers, that the divinity-destined minuscules receive the aid and comfort due these flesh-children of God the Sevenfold.

Has he never heard of the Periodic Law, which dates from 1828, the division of the elements on a sevenfold basis?