hundredfold

[ huhn-drid-fohld ]

adjective
  1. a hundred times as great or as much.

  2. comprising a hundred parts or members.

adverb
  1. in a hundredfold measure.

Origin of hundredfold

1
First recorded in 1125–75, hundredfold is from the Middle English word hundredfald.See hundred, -fold

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How to use hundredfold in a sentence

  • They clothed us when clothing was bought with blood, and we should be glad to return this warmth, this protection, an hundredfold.

    A Pioneer Mother | Hamlin Garland
  • The rapture of the explorer who is the first to set foot on a vast new continent was theirs, magnified a hundredfold.