threeness
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See also: Threeness
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From three + -ness. Compare Middle English þrinnesse, þrimnesse, þremnesse, þrumnesse (“trinity”, literally “three-ness”), Old English þrīnes, þrinnes (“trinity”, literally “three-ness”).
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Noun[edit]
threeness (countable and uncountable, plural threenesses)
- The state of being three; triunity; trinity.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin Books, page 218:
- the Cappadocian Fathers provided a way of speaking about the Trinity which would create a balance between threeness and oneness.
- 2012, Gilles Emery and Matthew Levering, The Oxford Handbook Of The Trinity:
- [...] This statement focuses more on God's oness than on his threeness.
- A group of three; a trio.
- (Christianity) The Trinity.
- 2010, Jeff Bachl, translated by Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent: Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme, Shambhala, translation of original by Jakob Boehme:
- Therefore concern yourselves, you philosophers: how God has created this world in six days. For the work of each day is a creation of a spirit in the Holy Threeness, and the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath of God, in the seventh [...]
Synonyms[edit]
- (state of being three): See also Thesaurus:threeness
- (group of three): threesome, triad, trinity; see also Thesaurus:trio