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Trinity   /trˈɪnəti/  /trˈɪnɪti/   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" Quotes from Famous Books



... not reach up Manhattan Island above the vicinity of Broome or Spring Streets, although there were beyond that the villages of Greenwich, Bloomingdale, Yorkville, and Harlem. The City Hotel, on Broadway, just above Trinity Churchyard, Bunker's Hotel, lower down, and the Washington Hotel, which occupied the site of the Stewart building above the Park, were the principal public houses. The Boston stages stopped at Hall's North American Hotel, at the corner of Bayard Street ...
— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore

... vessel. Yet I knew there must be another and a subtler one, to account not only for the magnitude of the crime, but for the pains which the actual perpetrators had taken to conceal the fact of their survival, and for the union of so diverse a trinity as Senhor Santos, Captain Harris, ...
— Dead Men Tell No Tales • E. W. Hornung

... in God who made us both, and in the inferiority of the remnant of the habitable globe.' Or else: 'In the beginning God created Venice. Then He created the rest of the world. Then He created Me. Then He retired and left me to deal with the situation.' Or else: 'I am an earthly Trinity. I am myself. I am ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke

... however, to secure a place in the Indian Civil Service, and it was decided that he should go up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and read ...
— Hugh - Memoirs of a Brother • Arthur Christopher Benson

... Anne Sandy Point, Saint George Basseterre, Saint George Gingerland, Saint James Windward, Saint John Capisterre, Saint John Figtree, Saint Mary Cayon, Saint Paul Capisterre, Saint Paul Charlestown, Saint Peter Basseterre, Saint Thomas Lowland, Saint Thomas Middle Island, Trinity Palmetto Point Independence: 19 September 1983 (from UK) Constitution: 19 September 1983 Legal system: based on English common law National holiday: Independence Day, 19 September (1983) Executive branch: British monarch, governor general, ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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