trebly

adj, adv — 3 senses

trebly

adj

Etymology From treble + -ly.

1

Having treble, or high-pitched, qualities.

With the room so bare, Ivret’s voice sounded different, trebly echoes ringing off her sibilants.2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 162:

trebly

adv

Etymology From treble + -ly.

1

Archaic Three times, thrice

2

To three times the extent or degree; triply.

For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Cignet Classic, published 1998, page 13:
The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].1958 January 23, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:

Synonyms: thricely, threefold

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