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English
Etymology
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
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 [...]
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