Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a quadruple or fourfold degree; to a fourfold extent or amount.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
four times - adverb in four (often different) ways
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Examples
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Worship, it is best to go back to church and pray quadruply hard now.
Think Progress » Boehner Claims Student Loan Reform Will ‘Eliminate Every Bank In The Country’ 2010
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The corporations are going to … doubly take over, and then quadruply take over, and so on, and because a thing might get exponential worse is immaterial in this case, because … um … it should not be considered.
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Fortunately you ended up loving the robot cake, probably because robots are awesome and jetpacks are awesome and together they are quadruply awesome.
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What I've been particularly successful with is to take their "argument" and show how it quadruply cuts against their own candidate, Hillary.
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Furthermore, the better-things-to-do-with-your-life rule is at least quadruply true when Obama's attacker is Powerline's John Hinderaker, who once acknowledged that it was "maybe" hyperbolic of him to write this ...
David Quigg: A Chance For You To Squander Your Time on Earth Like I Just Did 2009
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This is doubly true if the excerpt contains the bulk of the essay's argument, quadruply true if the excerpt appears at a site that monetizes its content.
Attribution and Affiliation on All Things Digital - Waxy.org 2009
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It's strings of echoes and harmonies, like the thematic glass harmonica, and everything in this book is doing triple or quadruply duty, narratively speaking.
"I cannot say with any degree of certainty. I really cannot say." matociquala 2007
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I guess the statute of limitations issue makes me quadruply offended, which is a pretty high level, I guess.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Eduardo Penalver’s Defense of Sotomayor’s Didden decision: 2009
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People in Hollywood are, famously, only as big as their last film, and the knives are perpetually out to have the mighty fall and the talented go astray - but it is doubly, triply, quadruply difficult for a woman over 40 whose sexuality is, at least surreptitiously, seen as a strike against her and whose best work is often seen as being quite some distance in the past.
Archive 2007-12-16 Melissa Silverstein 2007
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People in Hollywood are, famously, only as big as their last film, and the knives are perpetually out to have the mighty fall and the talented go astray - but it is doubly, triply, quadruply difficult for a woman over 40 whose sexuality is, at least surreptitiously, seen as a strike against her and whose best work is often seen as being quite some distance in the past.
December 17, 2007 Melissa Silverstein 2007
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