triply en · ADV
Etymology
Etymology tree English triple Middle English -ly English -ly English triply From triple + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of relative importance, usually) At three times the severity or degree.
It is important to lock the door, and triply so at night.
What is worse is how the custom-designed treatment programs for our community that are springing up make no provision for those of us doubly, triply or even quadruply oppressed […] This neglect is a symptom of the dysfunctionality afflicting our community: the degree to which we've permitted too many assimilationists to define the standards of identity for us all.
1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5: