ninefold

adj, adv — 3 senses

ninefold

adj

Etymology From Middle English *nynefold, *niȝenfald, from Old English niġonfeald. Equivalent to nine + -fold.

1

Having nine times as much or as many.

2

Having nine parts.

If so, where is your ninefold thread?1872, Palmer Boyd, transl., Nágánanda, act III, page 46:

Derived terms: ninefoldness

ninefold

adv

Etymology From Middle English *nynefold, *niȝenfald, from Old English niġonfeald. Equivalent to nine + -fold.

1

By a factor of nine.

Related terms: nonadic

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