triplicity

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English

Etymology

From Latin triplex, triplicis (threefold). Compare French triplicité. See triplicate.

Noun

triplicity (countable and uncountable, plural triplicities)

  1. The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.
    • Edmund Spenser
      in their trinal triplicities on high
  2. (astrology) The division of the signs according to the number of the elements.

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