Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hundred times as much.
- noun The plant Galium verum: so called on account of its very numerous flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hundred times as much or as many.
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- adjective Multiplied by a hundred.
- adverb By a factor of one hundred.
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- adverb by a factor of one hundred
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nuisance earned his title a hundredfold within the week.
Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915
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Now the greatest reward is due to virginity, namely the hundredfold fruit, according to a gloss on Matt.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Mark arranges the various yields in ascending scale, as if to teach our hopes and aims a growing largeness, while Matthew orders them in the opposite fashion, as if to teach that, while the hundredfold, which is possible for all, is best, the smaller yield is accepted by the great Lord of the harvest, who
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868
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"hundredfold," though not unexampled (Ge 26: 12), is a rare return in the natural husbandry, so the highest degrees of spiritual fruitfulness are too seldom witnessed.
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Celestial One suddenly dipped one gold wing tip and song rang into the air, a beautiful hundredfold song pealing and harmonizing like cathedral bells, loud enough to fill the night.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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The real reason our nation is bogged down in those two wars is the obscene amount of influence that the defense and armaments corporations have on our government, and their own single-minded desirre to increase their wealth a hundredfold.
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Sank into every part of him until the lancing pain of tonight returned a hundredfold.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Tests on the corn material revealed two compounds that stopped the sexual cycle in females "at concentrations approximately two-hundredfold lower than classical phytoestrogens."
Jeffrey Smith: Genetically Modified Soy Diets Lead to Ovary and Uterus Changes in Rats Jeffrey Smith 2010
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Celestial One suddenly dipped one gold wing tip and song rang into the air, a beautiful hundredfold song pealing and harmonizing like cathedral bells, loud enough to fill the night.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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When they come into this density, everything is a hundredfold more intense than in the human body.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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