English

Proper noun

Threeness

1. (Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Trinity.
   • 1949, Margaret Anne Williams, Glee-wood:

     [...] and I might not look at the brightness of His face save through a sheen mirror between me and Him that shields my eyes. So I have often seen the Holy Threeness, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, three in one, and but a little while might I bear the light.

   • 2001, Brian Payton, Hail Mary Corner:

     I'm not sure why God needs three forms — Father, Son, Holy Spirit. I don't know why we just can't say God. ... Jon went on for a while talking about the Trinity, the "Threeness and Oneness." It didn't sound as if he was convinced, though.

   • 2010, Jakob Boehme, Jeff Bach, Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent:

     Therefore concern yourselves, you philosophers: how God has created this world in six days. For the work of each day is a creation of a spirit in the Holy Threeness, and the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath of God, in the seventh [...]

English

Noun

threeness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural threenesses)

1. The state of being three; triunity; trinity.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 218:

     the Cappadocian Fathers provided a way of speaking about the Trinity which would create a balance between threeness and oneness.

   • 2012, Gilles Emery, Matthew Levering, The Oxford Handbook Of The Trinity:

     [...] This statement focuses more on God's oness than on his threeness.

2. A group of three; a trio.
3. (religious) The Trinity.
   • 2010, Jakob Boehme, Jeff Bach, Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent:

     Therefore concern yourselves, you philosophers: how God has created this world in six days. For the work of each day is a creation of a spirit in the Holy Threeness, and the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath of God, in the seventh [...]

Synonyms

• trinity
• tripartiteness