trinity
IPA: trˈɪnʌti
noun
- A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.
- The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.
- (Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- A female given name from English used since the 1970s, from the religious term trinity, or translated from its long-established Spanish equivalent.
- A male given name
- A small coastal town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- A town in Alabama.
- A city in North Carolina.
- A city and town in Texas.
- The world's first nuclear explosion: a nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico.
- (UK, Ireland, law, education) Ellipsis of Trinity term. [(law) The fourth and final term of the legal year, running from May to July, during which the upper courts of England and Wales, and Ireland, sit to hear cases.]
- (Cambridge University, informal) Ellipsis of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Trinity College, Oxford.
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Examples of "trinity" in Sentences
- Though the term trinity isn’t in the Bible, the truth of God’s three-in-one nature is.
- The doctrine of the trinity is really just short hand for three simple biblical truths
- At least there is no Trinity in trinity, no Superman in superman and no Wonder Woman in wonder Woman.
- The Bible does not contain the term trinity either, but repeatedly it refers to the “threeness” of God being God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- Some further thoughts remain to be thrown out in the third place, as to the prëconceivable fitness or propriety of that Holy Union, which we call the trinity of Persons who constitute the
- Although the term trinity is a theological expression devised by the early Church Fathers in countering various heresies, such as Gnosticism, Sabellianism, and Arianism, and not to be found explicitly in the Bible, it is everywhere assumed and alluded to.
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