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noun

Trinity n.

(Christian Theol.) The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.

Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.

Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.

Trinity House, an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like.

Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity.

Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.

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"Trinity" Quotes from Famous Books

... his strong arms and together they sat for hours and the pall of his poverty fell from them and they pictured the future rose-white and crowned with gold—a future in which there were THREE—the trinity one and undivided. ...

— Peg O' My Heart • J. Hartley Manners

... active assistant of Cromwel in the great work of the destruction of monasteries; and that from grants of abbey lands, which the queen esteemed it sacrilege to touch, he had derived the whole of that wealth of which he was now employing a considerable portion in the foundation of Trinity college Oxford. ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... a few years ago by Mr. W. H. Black, in the library of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. II. A Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts, made by himself before his house was plundered by the populace, and now preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. ...

— The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee - And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts • John Dee

... Myddelton the next Under Master was William Hutchinson. He was the son of the landlord of the principal inn in the neighbouring town of Wragby, and had been educated at the small grammar school there. He was appointed about 1845. He graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, as B.A., in 1848, keeping his terms there by permission, while acting as Usher at Horncastle. In that year he left Horncastle, and was elected Master of Howden Grammar School in Yorkshire, ...

— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter

... with her husband and my son, was the last to arrive. I kissed Therese and then my son, and sat down between them, whispering to Therese that such a dear mysterious trinity must not be parted; at which Therese smiled sweetly. The abbe sat down between Redegonde and the Corticelli, and amused us all the ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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