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From Middle English trinite, from Anglo-Norman trinite and Old French ternite (modern French trinité), from Latin trīnitās, from trīnī (“three each”), from trēs (“three”). By surface analysis, trine +‎ -ity. Displaced native Old English þrines (literally “threeness”).

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trinity (plural trinities)

  1. A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.
    Coordinate terms: (1) unity; (2) duality; (4) quaternity; (5) quinity
    Near-synonyms: threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      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 symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
    • 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 113:
      Together with Anu, the Father of the Gods, and Enki (the Semitic Ea), he [Enlil] made up the highest trinity of the ancient Sumerians.
  2. The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.
    Synonyms: threeness; see also Thesaurus:threeness
    Coordinate terms: (1) unity, oneness; (2) duality, twoness; (4) quaternity, fourness; (5) quinity, fiveness

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