twofold

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twofold, from Old English twēofeald. Equivalent to two + -fold; cognate to Icelandic tvöfalt and Dutch tweevoudig.

adj

  1. Double; duplicate; multiplied by two.
    The wheat produced a twofold harvest.
  2. Having two parts, especially two different parts.
    a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument
    1874, Ernest Myers (transl.), The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Pythian Ode III, page 65. Had I but landed there and brought unto him a twofold joy, first golden health and next this my song of triumph to be a splendour in his Pythian crown […]
    It is the tale of Ixion's twofold guilt, unnatural murder and unlawful love. 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 7, page 107
    "Wallace's suggestion for overcoming the epistemological and solipsistic effects of innate selfishness is twofold." 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy

adv

  1. In a double degree; doubly.

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