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noun A group consisting of three closely related members. Also called triunity.
noun Theology In most Christian faiths, the union of three divine persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in one God. Also called Trine.
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The condition of being three; threeness.
A set or group of three; a triad; a trio; a trine. The world's great trinity, Pleasure, Profit, and Honor. Roger Williams.
[capitalized] The union of three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—in one Godhead; the threefold personality of the one divine being. The statements of the doctrine of the Trinity in the creeds of Christendom are the result of attempts to reconcile the accepted teaching of Scripture (1), with reference to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, that each possesses the divine attributes, and is worthy to receive divine worship, and (2), as opposed to every form of polytheism, that there is but one God. To harmonize these two propositions has been one of the problems of theology; and the church doctrine of the Trinity has been the result. The most ancient symbol in which there occurs a distinct statement of this doctrine is the Athanasian, in which it is thns stated: “We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity; neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.” The term Trinity is applied, however, in ecclesiastical literature to different philosophical explanations of the Biblical teaching. Some have held to a trinity of manifestation, one God revealing himself to mankind in three persons; some to a unity of will and a difference in other elements of being; others, again, to a subordination, though not an inferiority, of the Son to the Father, and of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son; others have attempted a mystical explanation of the Trinity, as, for example, the Swedenborgians, who hold that “the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three essentials of one God, which make one, just as the soul, body, and operation make one in man”; while still others have used language in explanation of the Trinity which makes it, as thus explained, approach tritheism—that is, the doctrine that there are three Gods. The received doctrine of the Christian church among Trinitarians may be fairly stated to be that we are taught by the Scriptures to believe that there is but one God, and yet three equal subjects in the one Godhead, who are described as persons, but that we are nnable to determine in what sense these three are separate and in what sense they are united in one. So at his Baptizynge was alle the hool Trynytee. Mandeville, Travels, p. 104. Jhesu that syttyth yn Trynyté, Blesse the fadur that gate the. Octavian (ed. Halliwell), l. 958. O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three Persons and oue God. Book of Common Prayer, Litany.

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In 1832, it was announced by the post-horns of all Europe as the death of him who had written the Wilhelm Meister , the Iphigenie , and the Faust , and who had been enthroned by some of his admirers on the same seat with Homer and Shakspeare, as composing what they termed the trinity of men of genius . — Biographical Essays
Nowhere in the trinity is there a call for more testing. — Colorado Springs Independent
She also talked something funny that she calls the Hip Hop trinity, which is the gangster, pimp, hoe trinity that mainstream hip hop suffers from. is an actress, and I did not know who she was, but I gained a lot of respect for her because throughout her career she has stood up for her values. — Youth Radio - Top News
The nature of the trinity is another: can a single sentient being be comprised of two or more "persons"? — open source theology - Comments
Therefore the word trinity is not to be applied to God On the contrary, Athanasius says: "Unity in Trinity; and Trinity in Unity is to be revered I answer that, The name "Trinity" in God signifies the determinate number of persons. — Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

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Middle English trinite, from Old French, from Latin trīnitās, from trīnus, trine; see trine.

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from Middle English trinitee, trynite, from Old French trinite, French trinité =Provencal trinitat =Spanish trinidad =Portuguese trindade =Italian trinità =G. trinität =W. trindod =Irish trionnoid =Gaelic trionaid, from Late Latin trinita (t-)s, the number three, a triad, in theology the Trinity (the word in all senses being first found in Tertullian), from Latin trinus, threefold, plural trini, three by three: see trine.

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