tenthousandfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The following is a Buddhist principle of law, but prob. existing only in theory:[…]divine or sacred objects are to be repaid or made good tenthousandfold, things or property of the clergy eightyfold, of ordinary men sevenfold, and besides the object itself, hence eightfold C.;
ref: 1881, H[einrich] A[ugust] Jäschke, “Tibetan-English Dictionary”, in A Tibetan-English Dictionary with Special Reference to the Prevailing Dialects. To Which is Added an English-Tibetan Vocabulary., London, page 175, column 1:
text: Ida. Wicked monster, how I hate you now! / More than I ever hated you before; / And more than you and all on earth can hate! / But ’tis in vain; therefore I go and leave / My curse tenthousandfold with you!
ref: 1892, Otto Frederick Schupphaus, The Plutocrat. A Drama in Five Acts., New York: A. Lovell & Co., act II, scene II, page 50:
text: But there is one exception, and that is London. London walking is a quite distinct and peculiar thing, utterly unlike any other town-walking. It is a unique branch of walking in general and solitary walking in particular: for all the circumstances which make town-walking solitary apply tenthousandfold in London.
ref: 1912, A. H. Sidgwick, “Walking Alone, with a Digression on London Walking”, in Walking Essays, London: Edward Arnold, page 257:
text: This procedure to him is “simply Borgiaism amplified tenthousandfold by the mechanical resources of modern war.”
ref: 1916 February, Eduard Bernstein, translated by John Mez, American Opinions of the World War as Seen by a German (International Conciliation), American Association for International Conciliation, page 23:
text: […]in California grew from 8,786,330 barrels to 86,591,535 barrels, increasing tenfold, while in Oklahoma it shot up during the same period from 10,000 barrels to 97,915,243 barrels, increasing practically tenthousandfold.
ref: 1920, The Contemporary Review, page 676:
text: And had not his dear Lord Jesus Christ promised that it would be repaid tenthousandfold? that was the truth, friends.
ref: 1938, J. H. MacCallum Scott, Beaten Tracks, Travel Book Club, page 64:
text: Thalassa! Thalassa! / Greetings to thee, thou ocean everlasting! / Greetings from me, tenthousandfold / From heart exulting, / As once of old thou wast greeted / By tenthousand Grecian-hearts / Misfortune-assailed, homeland-yearning, / World-renowned Grecian-hearts. / —Heine, The North-sea.
ref: 1943, The Journal of the Polynesian Society, page 110:
text: The bounteous sun delights to drink the lakes, / But gives tenthousandfold the wealth he takes.
ref: 1956 March, “Bengal (1750-1800)”, in Calcutta Review, page 252:
text: The Pope did not, of course, go on to develop the truth he thus glimpsed – the age of power resources of coal, oil, electricity and nuclear fission, – the age of immense technological advance, of automation, the multiplication of man’s power to produce tenthousandfold – and yet, a world unfinished, still poverty stricken, wretched in its hunger, malnutrition, disease, and dreadful slums, of appalling rural misery, in spite of all the progress that has been made.
ref: 1970, Praxis, page 93:
text: This idea was supported by the results of pulse-chase experiments, involving a labeling with (³H)-uridine for 3 min and subsequent suppression of further incorporation of radioactivity by addition of a large excess (tenthousandfold) of unlabeled uridine to the growth medium (Fig. 4).
ref: 1970, Jan Retèl, The Biosynthesis of Ribosomal RNA in Yeast, page 6:
text: The Apocalypse of Baruch is more exuberant: / The earth also shall yield its fruit tenthousandfold and on each vine there shall be a thousand branches, and each branch shall produce a thousand clusters, and each cluster shall produce a thousand grapes, and each grape shall produce a cor of wine. And those who have hungered shall rejoice. … (2 Baruch 29:5)
ref: 1971, Geoffrey Wainwright, Eucharist and Eschatology, published 2003, →ISBN, page 26:
text: movies^([sic]) get tenthousandfold more attention than they should.
ref: 1989, New York Quarterly, page 63:
text: May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty [tenthousandfold] of grain and wine (v. 28).
ref: 2007, Oskar Skarsaune, Reidar Hvalvik, editors, Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries, Hendrickson Publishers, →ISBN, page 331, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of ten-thousandfold.