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Definition of Trichotomies
1. trichotomy [n] - See also: trichotomy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trichotomies
Literary usage of Trichotomies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1845)
"Thus the economy of this book exhibits a regular and all- pervading series of
trichotomies, most of them so palpable that none can mistake them. ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1847)
"The trichotomies seem to reign everywhere, in almost every chapter and section.
So far is this numerosity carried, that it verges almost to the ..."
3. Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann by Francis Bowen (1877)
"Thus we rise, by a series of " trichotomies," as he calls them, just as by
successive steps of a ladder, from the vague and indeterminate Idea of Pure Being ..."
4. Trichotomy in Roman Law by Henry Goudy (1910)
"however, hold that the Roman trichotomies above criticized are either defensible
in themselves on grounds of simplicity, convenience, logic, or the like, ..."
5. The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany by Alvan Lamson, Ezra Stiles Gannett, George Putnam, George Edward Ellis (1845)
"If we withdraw our attention from these obvious and palpable trichotomies,* in
respect to the larger portions of the book, and direct it to the examination ..."
6. A Commentary on the Apocalypse by Moses Stuart (1845)
"The only way in which the reader can satisfy himself, therefore, as to the great
mass of these minor trichotomies, will be to open his Greek Testament, ..."
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