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thrice

[ thrahys ]

adverb

  1. three times, as in succession; on three occasions or in three ways.
  2. in threefold quantity or degree.
  3. very; extremely.


thrice

/ θraɪs /

adverb

  1. three times
  2. in threefold degree
  3. archaic.
    greatly


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Word History and Origins

Origin of thrice1

1150–1200; Middle English thries, equivalent to obsolete thrie thrice ( Old English thrīga ) + -s -s 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of thrice1

Old English thrīwa, thrīga; see three

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Example Sentences

I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.

Those people have now been thrice betrayed--by Mubarak, by Morsi, and yesterday by the military.

Seriously, the Tea Party favorite has thrice run for a Delaware Senate seat and lost.

Thrice married and twice divorced, Tony exemplified a certain Hollywood archetype.

South Carolina evangelical voters cast their ballots overwhelmingly for a thrice-married admitted adulterer.

He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."

Walking thrice round it, he at each time gravely repeated: "If she dies she dies, but if she lives she lives."

Among others, an Abb thrice lifted his fork to his mouth, and thrice laid it down, with an eager stare of surprise.

The average quantity to begin with for a child of ten or twelve years has been twenty grains thrice daily.

Child, thrice child, only remember that I love you, and don't let anything disturb you.

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