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  • noun The property of being twofold.

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twofold +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Deeper than this golden mean, however, runs the idea here; the dialectic of existence, the twofoldness which must be made one, the higher synthesis over all analysis are dimly intimated in the marvelous tale.

    Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

  • There are passages from the Zend-Avesta which seem to rise above this necessary dualism or essential twofoldness of evil as well as good in the composition of the world.

    Christian Doctrine of Sin 1823-1886 1876

  • It cannot even now be said that the fundamental forms of vegetable structure have been precisely determined; some, with Schleiden himself, finding a radical twofoldness, and others aiming to establish a unity [100] as the most general plan of the plant.

    Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855

  • The solution appeared to him perfect, according to his study and analysis of the problem — the twofoldness that he found in man, of divine dignity on the one hand, and frivolous, sensual degradation on the other.

    Pascal John Tulloch 1854

  • “This twofoldness (_duplicité_),” he says, “is so visible, that some have conceived that man must have two souls — a simple subject appearing to them incapable of such and so sudden variations; an immeasurable presumption on the one hand, a horrible abasement on the other.

    Pascal John Tulloch 1854

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