Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Five times the number or quantity.

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

  • In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.

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

  • adjective In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
  • adverb By a factor of five.

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

  • adjective having five units or components
  • adjective having five units or components

Etymologies

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five +‎ -fold

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Examples

  • This is the completeness which they call the fivefold animal sacrifice.

    Chapter 50. Eating the God. § 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs 1922

  • This is the completeness which they call the fivefold animal sacrifice. "

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • This is the completeness which they call the fivefold animal sacrifice. "

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • This is the completeness which they call the fivefold animal sacrifice.”

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • House, "as they called their fivefold league, were by far the most powerful, for they could muster as many warriors as all the four remaining tribes together; and they now sought to draw the confederacy into a series of wars, which, though not directed against the French, threatened soon to involve them.

    Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Francis Parkman 1858

  • Then, O priests, the guardians of hell inflict on him the torture called the fivefold pinion: they force a heated iron stake through his hand; they force a heated iron stake through his other hand; they force a heated iron stake through his foot; they force a heated iron stake through his other foot; they force a heated iron stake through the middle of his breast.

    Death's Messengers. II. The Doctrine. 1. Translated from the Anguttara-Nikya (iii. 351). 1909

  • That's the one proposal that most observers feel Bush will readily accept; the 'fivefold' increase in U.S. trainers embedded with the Iraqi troops.

    America is the Author of the Civil War in Iraq 2006

  • Department of Energy who met in Houston, Texas Jan. 23-24, 2006, before Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government was sworn in - encouraged decision makers '' to streamline the regulatory approval process, '' with a '' one-stop-shop '' for project proposals and facilitate a '' fivefold '' expansion of oil production in Alberta from one million to five million barrels a day.

    Big Blue Picture 2008

  • Between July 2008 and the time he had left office, President Bush had authorized thirty Predator and Reaper strikes on Pakistani territory, a fivefold increase compared to the six strikes that the CIA had launched during the first half of 2008.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Suicide attacks went up more than fivefold, from seventeen in 2005 to 123 a year later, while IED attacks doubled; attacks on international forces tripled; Afghan civilian deaths at the hands of the insurgents reached a record seven hundred; and American and NATO military deaths were at their highest levels since the Taliban were ousted.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

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