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Twofold. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Twofold a. (sb.), adv. Forms: α. 2, 5– Sc., twafald, 5 Sc. twa faulde, 9 Sc. twafauld, (twa-fall). β. 3 twouold; 4 twofolde, 6 two folde, twofoulde, 7 twofolde; 5–6 two fold, 7–9 two-fold, 7– twofold. [app. orig. a refashioning of TWIFOLD, after TWO; in later use perh. independently f. TWO + -FOLD.]

1   A.  adj.

2   † 1.  Double (in fig. sense); double-minded, wavering. Obs.

3 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 151. Anfald oðer twafald is ech mon…. Þe twafalde Mon is unstaþelfest on alle his weies.

4   2.  a. Consisting of two folds or layers.

5 a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 50. Þe cloð in ham beo twouold.

6   b.  Folded or bent double. (Cf. B. 1.) Sc.

7 1821.  Blackw. Mag., Jan., 402/1. My auld auntie, wha’s twafauld with the rheumatics.

8   3.  Consisting of two combined; composed of two parts or elements; existing in two relations or manners; of two kinds; double, dual.

9   a.  in abstract or general sense.

10 1559.  W. Cunningham, Cosmogr. Glasse, 17. I finde a twofoulde difference betwixt a sphere, and a circle.

11 1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 102. A twofold victorie.

12 1691.  Norris, Pract. Disc., 321. The object of the Divine Will … is Twofold, either the object of his Will Decreeing, or … of his Will Commanding.

13 1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), I. 399. The earth … seen with its twofold motion; producing, by the one, the change of seasons; and, by the other, the … vicissitudes of day and night.

14 1875.  Helps, Ess., Self-Discipl., 19. Man, a creature of twofold nature, body and soul.

15   b.  in concrete sense, of material objects.

16 1605.  Shaks., Macb. IV. i. 121. Some … That two-fold Balles, and trebble Scepters carry.

17 a. 1721.  Prior, 2nd Hymn of Callimachus, 64. Ewes, that erst brought forth but single Lambs, Now drop’d their Two-fold Burdens.

18 1794.  Nelson, in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), I. 379. Two three-fold blocks, and two two-fold blocks.

19 1888.  Lady, 25 Oct., 374/3. The twofold [photograph] screens with … space for panel portraits.

20   4.  Double in amount; twice as great.

21 1812.  Crabbe, Tales, xii. 176. More charming grew the Fair, And seem’d to watch him with a two-fold care.

22 1873.  B. Stewart, Conserv. Force, iii. 49. The double system will now attract the single system with twofold force.

23   5.  Of yarn: Consisting of two strands twisted into one.

24 1880.  Daily News, 7 Dec., 2/8. Two-fold yarns are rather more in request. Ibid. (1883), 22 Oct., 7/1. Two-fold yarns … command improved rates more readily than single wefts. Ibid. (1894), 20 March, 7/3. The trade in twofold yarns shows some improvement.

25   b.  as sb. Also attrib.

26 1884.  W. S. B. McLaren, Spinning (ed. 2), 239. Twisting two or more threads together that have already been each made into two-fold.

27 1888.  Daily News, 25 Sept., 2/5. Transactions in twofolds and singles are still somewhat restricted. Ibid. (1895), 3 Feb., 2/5. Twofold spinners are getting more work.

28 1910.  Encycl. Brit., VII. 277/1 (Cotton). China also takes 40s mule, water twists and twofolds.

29   B.  adv.

30   1.  In two folds; so as to be folded or doubled. Chiefly Sc. of persons.

31 c. 1394.  P. Pl. Crede, 516. Þe glose is so greit in gladding tales, þat turneþ vp two-folde vnteyned opon trewþe.

32 c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. xxxii. 5595. A stane … has hym ourtane, And twa faulde [v.r. twafald] downe can him bere.

33 1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 62. Bynde a clothe two or thre folde vpon his foreheed.

34 1721.  Ramsay, Ode to Ph—, ix. Before auld age … lay ye twalald o’er a rung.

35 a. 1802.  Johnie of Breadislee, xviii., in Scott, Min. He’s laid him twa-fald ower his steed.

36 1894.  ‘Ian Maclaren,’ Bonnie Brier Bush, Highl. Mystic, i. He wes bent twa fad; a’ doot it’s a titch o’ rheumatism, or maybe lumbago.

37   2.  To twice the amount, twice as much, doubly.

38 1526.  Tindale, Matt. xxiii. 15. Ye make hym two folde more the chylde off hell then ye youre selves are.

39 1637.  Gillespie, Eng. Pop. Cerem., II. i. 6. It twofolde more scandalizeth such a one.

40   Hence Twofoldly (also 2 twafaldeliche) adv., in a twofold manner, doubly; Twofoldness, the quality of being twofold, doubleness, duality. So Twofolded ppl. a. [f. TWO + FOLDED], folded in two, folded double.

41 1887.  Morris, Odyss., XI. 361. Wrapping it round *twofolded.

42 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 5. Nu ic eou habbe þet godspel iseid anfaldeliche, nu scule ȝe understonden *twafaldeliche þet hit bi-tacnet.

43 1648.  Hexham, II. Tweevoudighlick, Twofoldly or Doubly.

44 1827.  Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1839), IV. 310. The *twofoldness of the Christian Church.

45 1861.  W. Barnes, in Macm. Mag., June, 128. That we should have two legs, or two hands,… this twofoldness of life-forms.

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