[f. TRIPLE a. + -LY2.] In a triple degree or manner; three times.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 191. If he will purge himself he may do it triply.
1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey, II. ii. His large library table, once triply covered with official communications.
1885. Miss Braddon, Wyllard’s Weird, III. xxxi. 210. She had heard her husband proclaim himself triply an assassin.
Comb. 1785. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxxii. (1794), 490. The common Fern … has superdecompound, or triplypinnate fronds.
1819. Pantologia, Triply-ternate, triternate.
1865. Mrs. L. L. Clarke, Common Seaweeds, iii. 67. Fan-like, rose-coloured varieties, or triply-branched.
1899. Rodway, Guiana Wilds, 27. A triply-armed clump of palms.
