Sevenfold

Origin

seven + -fold

Full definition of sevenfold

Adjective

1. Seven times as much; multiplied by seven.
• 1908, W. B. M. Ferguson, Zollenstein Chapter 1, “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
2. Having seven parts.

Adverb

1. By a factor of seven.
• Authorized Version, Genesis 4:15And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.