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ˈseveral-fold, a., adv., and n.
[f. several a. + -fold.]
Used like manifold, but with the implication of not very many.
1738Medley tr. Kolben's Cape Gd. Hope (ed. 2) I. 194 Some of the grown Women have above a Hundred of those Rings upon each Leg, lying several-fold one upon another. 1833Carlyle Misc. Ess., Cagliostro i. (1872) V. 79 As for the other question, of his resources, these we perceive were several-fold, and continually extending. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 33 In P[eperomia] magnoliifolia and rubella, it [the epidermis] exceeds several-fold the rest of the substance of the leaf, and in P. pereskiifolia it exceeds it seven-fold. 1892Advance (Chicago) 13 Oct., There is a growing interest in the cause, and..we may look for an increase of severalfold. 1945Times 7 Aug. 4/2 The Secretary of War..said later that an improved bomb would be forthcoming soon. It would increase by ‘severalfold’ the present effectiveness of the new weapon. 1979Nature 29 Mar. 468/1 The rate of protein synthesis increases severalfold during the early cleavage stages. 1981Spectator 7 Nov. 29 The reasons were severalfold. |