threeness

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Etymology

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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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threeness (countable and uncountable, plural threenesses)

  1. 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.
  2. A group of three; a trio.
  3. (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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