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English
Etymology
By alteration (influence of trio).[1]
Noun
triology (plural triologies)
- A trilogy.
1848, Frederic H Hedge, Prose Writers of Germany, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey and Hart, page 433, column 2:Among the remaining pieces of Æschylus, we have what is highly deserving of our attention, a complete triology. The antiquarian account of triologies is this, that in the more early times the poet did not contend for the prize with a single piece, but with three, which however were not always connected together by their contents, and that a fourth satirical drama was also attached to them.
1984 May 5, Keith Wilson, “Burgess raises Clockwork man from the dead”, in The Weekend Citizen, Ottawa, Ont., page 44:Anthony Burgess’s Enderby triology is now a tetralogy, with a new volume “Composed to placate kind readers of The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby’s End, who objected to my casually killing my hero.”
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