fivefold

Five times as much or as many.

Adjective

  1. Five times as much or as many.
  2. In a group or series of five; consisting of five together as one; quintuple.
    • [W]e pay twofold adoration to the goddess who grants increase and perfection. ... Fivefold adoration to her who exists in the form of Wisdom. - 1885, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Journal of the...

Origin

From Middle English fiffold, from Old English fīffeald. Equivalent to five + -fold.

Forms

five-fold

Derived

fivefold ministry fivefoldness

Adverb

  1. By a factor of five.

Forms

five-fold