The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Manifold \Man"i*fold\, a. [AS. manigfeald. See Many, and
Fold.]
1. Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous;
multiplied; complicated.
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O Lord, how manifold are thy works! --Ps. civ. 24.
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I know your manifold transgressions. --Amos v. 12.
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2. Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to
qualify nouns in the singular number. "The manifold wisdom
of God." --Eph. iii. 10. "The manifold grace of God." --1
Pet. iv. 10.
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Manifold writing, a process or method by which several
copies, as of a letter, are simultaneously made, sheets of
coloring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain
paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a
type-writer are transferred; writing several copies of a
document at once by use of carbon paper or the like.
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