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Webster 1913 Edition


Trinity

Trin′i-ty

,
Noun.
[OE.
trinitee
, F.
trinité
, L.
trinitas
, fr.
trini
three each. See
Trinal
.]
1.
(Christian Theol.)
The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
2.
Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.
3.
Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.
Trinity House
,
an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like.
Trinity Sunday
,
the Sunday next after Whitsunday; – so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity.
Trinity term
.
(Law)
See the Note under
Term
,
Noun.
, 5.

Webster 1828 Edition


Trinity

TRIN'ITY

,
Noun.
[L. trinitas; tres and unus, unitas, one, unity.]
In theology, the union of three persons in one Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
In my whole essay, there is not any thing like an objection against the Trinity.

Definition 2024


Trinity

Trinity

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Trinity

  1. (Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
    • 2009, Joel Richardson, The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of the Beast
      Thus many Muslims feel as though believing in the Trinity or ascribing divinity to Jesus are among the greatest sins conceivable
    • 1965, Hagop A. Chakmakjian, Armenian Christology and Evangelization of Islam
      The doctrine of Trinity is known as shirk — giving companion to God, the greatest sin in Islam.
  2. A female given name used since the 1970s, from the religious term trinity, or translated from its long-established Spanish equivalent.
  3. A male given name

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Noun

trinity (plural trinities)

  1. A group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VIII”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphonya harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  2. The state of being three; threeness.

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