sevenfold

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English seofonfeald. Equivalent to seven +‎ -fold

Adjective

sevenfold (not comparable)

Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter I:
  “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
Having seven parts; composed of seven items.
- 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (transl.), The Seven Against Thebes in Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 120.
  Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!

Related terms

Translations

multiplied by seven (adjective)

Dutch: zevenvoudig
Finnish: seitsemänkertainen, seitsenkertainen
Scottish Gaelic: seachd-fillte

Swedish: sjufaldigad c, sjufaldigat n
Telugu: ఏడింతలు (te) (ēḍintalu)

having seven parts (adjective)

Dutch: zevenvoudig
Finnish: seitsemänosainen, seitsenosainen

Swedish: sjufaldig c, sjufaldigt n

Adverb

sevenfold (not comparable)

By a factor of seven.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version):
  , Genesis 4:15
  And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Translations

by a factor of seven (adverb)

Dutch: zevenmaal (nl)
Finnish: seitsemänkertaisesti, seitsenkertaisesti

German: siebenfach (de)
Swedish: sjufaldig c, sjufaldigt n

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Translations to be checked

Serbo-Croatian: sedmostruk

References

sevenfold in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
sevenfold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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