twelvefold

[ adjective twelv-fohld; adverb twelv-fohld ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having twelve sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
being twelve times more, larger, greater, etc., as a given quantity size, intensity, or the like.

twelve times in amount or degree:
Its potential destructive power was increased twelvefold.

First recorded in 1550–60, twelvefold is from the Old English word twelf-feald. See twelve, -fold

Who knows how many thousand years ago The twelvefold Zodiac was made to show The course of stars above and men below?

In the same period exports of hams and shoulders to France increased more than twelvefold and to Great Britain more than a third.

By this twelvefold number therefore the orb of the whole earth is now signified.

But this twelvefold number is set for all mankind of all the orb, for the perfectness of its signification.

These Reflexionen recognise only the categories of relation, and must therefore be prior to the twelvefold classification.

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