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triality rare.|traɪˈælɪtɪ| [f. as trialism, after duality, plurality.] †1. The holding of three benefices at once. Obs.
a1529Skelton Col. Cloute 564 Of tryalytes, And of tot quottes, They commune lyke sottes. 1536Act 28 Hen. VIII, c. 16 §4 Pluralities, unions, trialities, appropriacions..And other bulles, breves, and faculties. 1587Harrison England ii. ii. (1877) i. 63 So plentifullie gat he by his perquisits, as elections, procurations, appeales, preuentions, pluralities, tot quots, trialities [etc.]. 1637Bastwick Litany ii. 9 The Pope selleth nonresidences, pluralityes, trialityes, totquots, the Prelats doe the same. 2. The condition or quality of being threefold.
1872Doran Mem. Gt. Towns xiii. (1878) 294 Dr. Wigan..not only wrote on the Duality of the Mind, but on the Triality (if we may coin a word), the threefold excellence, of the Brighton atmosphere. |