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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb To a double degree; twice.
  • adverb In a twofold manner.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a double or twofold manner; in twice the quantity or to twice the degree: as, to be doubly sensible of an obligation.
  • Deceitfully; with duplicity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In twice the quantity; to twice the degree
  • adverb Deceitfully.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a double manner; twice the severity or degree.
  • adverb in two ways
  • adverb obsolete with duplicity

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb to double the degree
  • adverb in a twofold manner

Etymologies

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First known usage in the 15th century.

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