• Threeness

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈθɹiːnÉ™s/

    Origin

    From three + -ness. Compare Old English þrīnes ("trinity").

    Full definition of threeness

    Noun

    threeness

    (countable and uncountable; plural threenesss)
    1. The state of being three; triunity; trinity.
      • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 218:the Cappadocian Fathers provided a way of speaking about the Trinity which would create a balance between threeness and oneness.
      • 2012, Gilles Emery, Matthew Levering, The Oxford Handbook Of The Trinity:... This statement focuses more on God's oness than on his threeness.
    2. A group of three; a trio.
    3. (religious) The Trinity.
      • 2010, Jakob Boehme, Jeff Bach, Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent: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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