Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who maintains the doctrine of tritheism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes in tritheism.
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- noun A
believer in threegods .
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- noun someone (not an orthodox Christian) who believes that the Father and Son and Holy Ghost are three separate gods
Etymologies
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tri- + theist
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Examples
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Latins, who spoke of one _hypostasis_ (_essence_), regarded the Eastern three _hypostases_ as tritheist; while the Greeks, who confessed three
The Arian Controversy Henry Melvill Gwatkin 1880
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Pope St. Dionysius in 259 AD wrote a public letter to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria in which he condemned the errors of Sabellius and the tritheist Marcion.
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