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Trinity Sunday   /trˈɪnəti sˈəndˌeɪ/   Listen
noun
Trinity  n.  
1.
(Christian Theol.) The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
2.
Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.
3.
Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.
Trinity House, an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like.
Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity.
Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.






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"Trinity sunday" Quotes from Famous Books



... prisoners, men, women, and children taken in the offending town, though he was so ill and so much in need of pity himself from Heaven, that he was carried in a litter. He lived to come home and make himself popular with the people and Parliament, and he died on Trinity Sunday, the eighth of June, one thousand three hundred and seventy-six, at forty-six ...
— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens

... Holy-days for which Proper Lessons are appointed in the Table fall upon a Sunday which is the first Sunday in Advent, Easter-day, Whitsunday, or Trinity Sunday, the Lessons appointed for such Sunday shall be read, but if it fall upon any other Sunday, the Lessons appointed either for the Sunday or for the Holy-day may be read at the discretion of ...
— The Book of Common Prayer - and The Scottish Liturgy • Church of England

... obeys; and the poem closes with the May Day festival service, celebrated by a choir of birds, who sing an ingenious, but what must have seemed in those days a more than slightly profane, paraphrase or parody of the matins for Trinity Sunday, to the praise of Cupid. From this outline, it will be seen at once that Chaucer's "Court of Love" is in important particulars different from the institutions which, in the two centuries preceding his own, had so much occupied the ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

... the Father Superior on Trinity Sunday last year, I haven't been since. I saw a devil sitting on one man's chest hiding under his cassock, only his horns poked out; another had one peeping out of his pocket with such sharp eyes, he was afraid of me; ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... religious nature. The money when collected was applied to meet various expenses, but chiefly to pay the wages of their priest, perhaps their confessor, and to supply their great feast held annually on Trinity Sunday, for which, according to the account of the steward and wardens, the following articles were purchased, ...
— A Walk through Leicester - being a Guide to Strangers • Susanna Watts



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