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triunity|traɪˈjuːnɪtɪ|
Also Triunity.
[f. triune + -ity, or f. tri- + unity.]
1. The state or attribute of being three in one.
a. of the Godhead: cf. trinity 1 b.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 157 The Præexistence of the Soul, and the Triunity in the Godhead, which Pythagoras taught. 1673[see trinity 1 b]. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 271 We guess from Man's co-eval Three, At God's ador'd Triunity. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 134 The Scriptural..idea of God will, in its development, be found to involve the idea of the Triunity.
b. gen.: cf. trinity 1 a.
1816Coleridge Lay Serm. 340 There exists in the human being..no mean symbol of Tri-unity, in reason, religion, and the will. 1894Illingworth Personality iii. (1895) 71 The family..its abstract triunity being..personally realised in father, mother, and child.
2. Three in one; a set or group of three constituting a unity.
a. The Godhead conceived as three ‘persons’: = trinity 2.
1621T. Bedford Sin unto Death 15 Nor is it possible to offend any one person of this Tri-vnitie, but the iniurie doth redound to them all. a1834Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 210 Instead of one Tri-unity we might have a mille-unity... Sherlock..had not the clear idea of the Trinity.
b. gen. = trinity 3.
1646Unhappy Game Scotch & Eng. 8 Then were it a Triunity, and not a Bi-unity.
So triˌunifiˈcation, the action of making to be three in one; triˈunion = triunity; triuniˈtarian, a believer in the triunity of the Godhead: = Trinitarian B. 2.
1892Nation (N.Y.) 20 Oct. 305/3 To secure..the *triunification of Germany.
1650T. Vaughan Anima Magica To the Author, And fix the roving thoughts in one Inseperate *Triunion.
1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) I. 188 Jewish commentators..cannot be said to have any of (what the Socinians would call) the prejudices of the *Triunitarians. 1859Ld. Acton Lett. (1909) 103 The triunion representing Germany in that triumvirate would also..be president of the new Germanic confederation. |