tenthousandfold

English

English numbers ^(edit)

	10,000
	1,000
Cardinal: ten thousand, myriad     Ordinal: ten-thousandth, myriadth     Multiplier: tenthousandfold, myriadfold     Group collective: myriad     Metric collective prefix: myria-     Metric fractional prefix: dimi-     Number of years: decamillennium

Etymology

From ten thousand +‎ -fold.

Adjective

tenthousandfold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of ten thousand.
   • 1857, J. C. Oehlschläger, “French Weights and Measures”, in A Dictionary of the English and German Languages, with a Synopsis of English Words Differently Pronounced by Different Orthoëpists, […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Weik, […], page 1145, column 2:

     The tenfold quantity is indicated by “deka,” the hundredfold by “hekto,” the thousandfold by “kilo” and the tenthousandfold by “myria.”

   • 1870, Emil du Bois-Reymond, translated by Gustav Solling, The German War. A Discourse Delivered on the Third of August, 1870, in the Aula of the University of Berlin, Berlin: Julius Sittenfeld, […], pages 9–10:

     Who else but that Catalina, whom, to unmask in time, no Cicero was found; that prince of darkness, who stealthily, in the dead of night robbed his nation of freedom and sovereignty; the liar, the forger of the people’s election-votes, the perjured, cold, tenthousandfold man-slaughterer, the profligate, penniless adventurer, now occupying the throne of the kings of France; carbonaro, whilst conspiring in a lower sphere, jesuit, when requiring that brotherhood in order to handcuff France; he the hypocrite, believing in nothing but his own blood-stained star, the man with whose bayonets the dogma of Infallibility has been concocted; the unfathomable intriguer and notorious originator of three wars, in short, the declared heir of the Napoleonic doctrine, that the world, but above all the French nation, are and remain the heirloom of the Bonaparte family and that in order to drain the former, no deed should be deemed too cruel, no treachery too perfidiously-mean.

   • 1937, Special Report Series, page 28:

     Fig. 5 shows that protozoa are the most radio-resistant tissues known and that the eggs of insects are the most radio-sensitive, and that there is a tenthousandfold difference in radio-sensitivity between these two extremes.

   • 1938, Technical Physics of the USSR, page 421:

     In fact, the tenthousandfold variation of the relaxation time (from 10 sec to 0.001 sec) is due to a temperature rise of 22° K, namely from 128° K to 150° K, while in the region between 10⁻⁵ sec; and 10⁻⁹ sec it is caused by a temperature rise of 130° K, i. e. from 170° K to 300° K.

   • 1949, N. Howard-Jones, editor, Applied Biophysics: Survey of Physical Methods Used in Medicine, page 103:

     There is a tenthousandfold difference between the extremes of sensitivity among different types of living cells when measured by the lethal effect.

   • 1964, Studia orientalia electronica, page 56:

     May the tenthousandfold bliss of the Holy Lord [and] the prayers of the saints for long life be strong in onehundredthousand^[sic] and in million eons, (P. 55) may the living creatures be perfect with well-being and causes of well-being!

   • 1972, Samuel Miklos Stern, Albert Hourani, Vivian Brown, editors, Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition: Essays Presented by His Friends and Pupils to Richard Walzer on His Seventieth Birthday, Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 353:

     Is it not beyond any absurdity to suppose a tenthousandfold infinity or even an infinite time of infinity, while the infinite cannot be comprised even once?

   • 1981, The Marxist Review, page 430:

     We are sitting on top of a volcano: According to cautious estimates by experts, the potential of nuclear arms stocks alone equals a detonating power of 50,000 megatons of conventional TNT. That means several tons per head of the present world population. That is the tenthousandfold detonating power of all bombs and grenades that exploded during world war II, demanding about 55 million human lives.

Adverb

tenthousandfold (not comparable)

1. By a factor of ten thousand.
   • 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:

     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.;

   • 1892, Otto Frederick Schupphaus, The Plutocrat. A Drama in Five Acts., New York: A. Lovell & Co., act II, scene II, page 50:

     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!

   • 1912, A. H. Sidgwick, “Walking Alone, with a Digression on London Walking”, in Walking Essays, London: Edward Arnold, page 257:

     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.

   • 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:

     This procedure to him is “simply Borgiaism amplified tenthousandfold by the mechanical resources of modern war.”

   • 1920, The Contemporary Review, page 676:

     […] 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.

   • 1938, J. H. MacCallum Scott, Beaten Tracks, Travel Book Club, page 64:

     And had not his dear Lord Jesus Christ promised that it would be repaid tenthousandfold? that was the truth, friends.

   • 1943, The Journal of the Polynesian Society, page 110:

     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.

   • 1956 March, “Bengal (1750-1800)”, in Calcutta Review, page 252:

     The bounteous sun delights to drink the lakes, / But gives tenthousandfold the wealth he takes.

   • 1970, Praxis, page 93:

     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.

   • 1970, Jan Retèl, The Biosynthesis of Ribosomal RNA in Yeast, page 6:

     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).

   • 1971, Geoffrey Wainwright, Eucharist and Eschatology, published 2003, →ISBN, page 26:

     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)

   • 1989, New York Quarterly, page 63:

     movies^[sic] get tenthousandfold more attention than they should.

   • 2007, Oskar Skarsaune, Reidar Hvalvik, editors, Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries, Hendrickson Publishers, →ISBN, page 331, column 2:

     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).