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English
Etymology
From triplic(ate) + -ity, from Latin triplicitas, from Latin triplex, triplicis (“threefold”). Compare French triplicité. See triplicate.
Pronunciation
Noun
triplicity (countable and uncountable, plural triplicities)
- The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.
- (astrology) The division of the twelve signs according to the four elements.
- 1693, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The Third Book (originally by François Rabelais) Chapter 25
- he very promptly and speedily formed and fashioned a complete fabric of the houses of heaven in all their parts, whereof when he had considered the situation and the aspects in their triplicities, he fetched a deep sigh, and said: I have clearly enough already discovered unto you the fate of your cuckoldry, which is unavoidable, you cannot escape it.
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