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Cardinal: one Ordinal: first Latinate ordinal: primary Reverse order ordinal: last Latinate reverse order ordinal: ultimate Adverbial: one time, once Multiplier: onefold Latinate multiplier: single Distributive: singly Germanic collective: onesome Collective of n parts: singlet, singleton Greek or Latinate collective: monad Greek collective prefix: mono- Latinate collective prefix: uni- Fractional: whole Elemental: singlet, singleton Greek prefix: proto- Number of musicians: solo Number of years: year |
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English onfold, anfald (“single, simple, honest, onefold”), from Old English ānfeald (“single, simple”, literally “onefold”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainfald, from Proto-Germanic *ainafalþaz (“onefold, simple”), equivalent to one + -fold. Cognate with Dutch eenvoud (“simplicity, easiness”), German Einfalt (“simplicity”) and einfach (“simple”), Icelandic einfaldur (“simple”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐍃 (ainfalþs, “simple”). More at one, -fold.
Adjective
[edit]onefold (not comparable)
- Constituting or being indicative of a single aspect or theme.
- Consisting of a single undivided part; whole; complete.
- 2005, Boeve, Geybels, Van den Bossche, Encountering transcendence:
- There the soul is onefold, pure and chaste, and empty of all things.
- Simple, plain, straightforward.
- 1875, Mrs. Oliphant, Whiteladies:
- [Her] object was simple enough; but it was too simple—too onefold (if I may borrow an expressive word from my native tongue: ae-fauld we write it in Scotch) for the apprehension of ordinary persons[.]
- 1875, Mrs. Oliphant, Whiteladies:
- Singular, as opposite to plural.
- 1844, Robert Rollock, Select works of Robert Rollock:
- Ye see how ready men are to misconstrue and pervert the onefold meaning of the Lord.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “onefold”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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