centuple

[ sen-tuh-puhl, -tyuh- ]

adjective

1. a hundred times as great; hundredfold.

verb (used with object)

, cen·tu·pled, cen·tu·pling.

1. to increase 100 times.

Word History and Origins

Origin of centuple¹

1600–10; < Middle French < Late Latin centuplus, equivalent to Latin centu ( m ) 100 + -plus -fold

Example Sentences

I knew that thou wilt give him the centuple, and therefore thought only how I could reach thee the soonest.

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