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Twofold vs Twissel - What's the difference?

twofold | twissel |

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

(-)
  • 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.
  • 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

    (-)
  • In a double degree; doubly.
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    twissel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Double; twofold.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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, 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;
  • (rare) That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.