manifold

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  1. adjective Many and varied; of many kinds; multiple: our manifold failings.
  2. adjective Having many features or forms: manifold intelligence.
  3. adjective Being such for a variety of reasons: a manifold traitor.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English manigfeald : manig, many; see many + -feald, -fald, -fold.

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  1. Also manyfold in literally use; from Middle English manifold, manyfold, manifald, monifald, etc., from Anglo-Saxon manigfeald, mænigfeald, monigfeald (= Old Saxon managfald = OFries. manichfald = Old High German managfalt, manacfalt, Middle High German manecvalt = Icelandic margfaldr = Gothic (Moesogothic) managfalths; cf., with additional adjective suffix, Dutch menigvoudig, menigvuldig = Middle Low German mannichvoldich = Swedish mångfaldig = Danish mangfoldig; also Anglo-Saxon manigfeald-līc = Icelandic margfaldligr), from manig, many, + -feald, English -fold.
  2. = Old High German managfalto (cf. Dutch menigvuldig); from the adjective
  3. from Middle English manifolden, from Anglo-Saxon gemænigfalden, gemonigfealdian (= Old High German managfaltōn, manacfaldan, Middle High German manecvalten = Icelandic margfalda = Swedish mångfaldiga; cf. Middle Low German mannichvoldigen); from the adjective
  4. Also mannifold, manifolds; many + fold, n.
 

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