millionfold

[ mil-yuh n-fohld ]

/ ˈmɪl yənˈfoʊld /

adjective

comprising a million parts or members.

a million times as great or as much: a millionfold increase.

adverb

in a millionfold measure.

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decorum

the act of or need for making up one's mind.

dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

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Origin of millionfold

First recorded in 1860–65; million + -fold

Words nearby millionfold

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Example sentences from the Web for millionfold

If you would bear to hear me read, you would see for yourself the millionfold modification of everything.
The Last Miracle|M. P. Shiel
The State is the union of individuals into a moral whole which multiplies a millionfold the aggregate of the powers of each.
Contemporary Socialism|John Rae
Every other variation must then result from the millionfold connections between these brain cells.
Psychotherapy|Hugo Mnsterberg
It made her eyes flash like so much fire, it gave her a millionfold more grace, more abandon, more heedlessness.
Under Two Flags|Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

This was usually four drops of a millionfold dilution in water.
The Treatment of Hay Fever|George Frederick Laidlaw

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