Twofold vs Twissel - What's the difference?
twofold | twissel |
Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.
* 1924 , ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 5.
In a double degree; doubly.
(rare) A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.
* 16thC , (additional biographies), ''The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , Volume II,
(rare) That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.
As adjectives the difference between twofold and twissel
is that twofold is double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument while twissel is double; twofold.As an adverb twofold
is in a double degree; doubly.As a noun twissel is
a double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.twofold
English
Adjective
(-)- some who posit both this cause and besides this the source of movement, which we have got from some as single and from other as twofold .
Adverb
(-)References
* *twissel
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)page 599,
- As from a tree we sundrie times espie / A twissell grow by Nature's subtile might / And beeing two, for cause they grow so nie / For one are tane, and so appeare in sight;