sixfold
adverb
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L199514 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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L340463 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: From Middle English sexfold, from Old English sixfeald. Equivalent to six + -fold.
- Having six times as much or as many.
- Having six component parts.
“The method is sixfold, and I will tell you what the six steps you must take are.”
adv
Etymology: From Middle English sexfold, from Old English sixfeald. Equivalent to six + -fold.
- Times six, multiplied by six.
“I will return your investment sixfold. That's right, you'll have 600% of what you started with. 1885, Alexander Campbell, Speeches on Divers Occasions, page 101, "[He] would state that in [1842, there were] 3,448 letters ... received, and in 1865 [that total was] 18,222, or nearly sixfold more.”