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Definition of Trinity

1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.

2. Noun. The union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead.

3. Noun. Three people considered as a unit.

Definition of Trinity

1. n. 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.

Definition of Trinity

1. Proper noun. (Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. ¹

2. Proper noun. (English female given name) used since the 1970s, from the religious term trinity, or translated from its long-established Spanish equivalent. ¹

3. Noun. A group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine. ¹

4. Noun. The state of being three; threeness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trinity

1. a group of three [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Trinity

1. 1. 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 Hindoo 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. See the Note under Term. Origin: OE. Trinitee, F. Trinite, L. Trinitas, fr. Trini three each. See Trinal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trinity

trinitro trinitroaniline trinitrobenzenes trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid trinitrocellulose trinitrocresol trinitroglycerin trinitromethane trinitrophenol trinitrophenyl-polylysine-horseradish peroxidase

trinitroresorcinol trinitrosyl trinitrotoluene trinitrotoluenes trinitrotoluol trinity (current term) triniunity trink trinket trinketed

trinketer trinketers trinketing trinketlike trinketries trinketry trinkets trinkety trinkle trinkly

Literary usage of Trinity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"trinity Medical College, which prior to the federation was the teaching body in ... trinity College has always made residential collegiate life one of its ..."

2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1841)
"Hardcastle, JA trinity Coll. Hawkins, Edw. trinity Coll. Hicks, Edw. trinity Col). ... Wilbraham, GF trinity Coll. Wilkinson, CA King's Coll. ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1898)
"1613 he entered as a pensioner at trinity College, Cambridge, and was elected a scholar at the following Easter. In January 1617 he proceeded BA, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... of a trinity of persons resulting in worship and prayer to three gods, ... ^on> and Holy Spirit is declared to be ° a trinity of person, not of persons, ..."

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