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trebly en · ADJ
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English treble
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English trebly
From treble + -ly.
Meanings
Having treble, or high-pitched, qualities.
With the room so bare, Ivret’s voice sounded different, trebly echoes ringing off her sibilants. 2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 162:
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most trebly
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trebliest
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treblier
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more trebly
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trebly en · ADV
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English treble
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English trebly
From treble + -ly.
Meanings
(archaic, not-comparable) Three times, thrice
(not-comparable) To three times the extent or degree; triply.
For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin. 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Cignet Classic, published 1998, page 13:
The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […]. 1958 January 14, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12: