Trinitarian
adjEtymology From French trinitaire (from Medieval Latin trinitarius, from Latin trinitas + -arius) + -ian.
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Believing in the Trinity.
- It was no less than whether the psychic movement in Britain was destined to take a Unitarian or a Trinitarian course.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
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Of or pertaining to the Trinity (the three persons of the Godhead) or to the doctrine of Trinity.
- The influence of trinitarian iconography is evident to varying degrees. Teresa and Elizabeth, for example, make reference to particular visual images of the Trinity.2010, Anne Hunt, The Trinity: Insights from the Mystics, →ISBN:
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Uncommon Of or pertaining to a trinity, a group of three (almost exclusively when compared to the Christian Trinity).
- In polytheism we find also a tendency to a trinitarian grouping of gods, and in each threefold group one god who was at least primus inter pares.1916, The North American Review, page 400:
- See PL 210.54C and James J. Sheridan's stimulating observations on the Trinitarian grouping of Nature, Genius, and Truth (in his note on p. 218).1985, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Alan of Lille's Grammar of Sex: The Meaning of Grammar to a Twelfth-century Intellectual, Medieval Academy of Amer, page 44:
3 more examples
- It is in Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics: […]a. 1977, Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi, Allah, The Unique Name of God, A.A.I.I.L. (U.K.), page 47
- […] The ancient Egyptians believed in the Trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis and Horus while the Hindus had Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, and the later Christians described God as God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.2010, Ebrahim Kazim, Scientific Commentary of Suratul Faateḥah, Pharos Media & Publishing, →ISBN:
- […] singularity is transformed into the trinitarian triad of abstract unity (universality), differentiation (particularity and finite singularity), and return (infinite singularity),2013, Hyo-Dong Lee, Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude: A Comparative Theology for the Democracy of Creation, Fordham Univ Press, →ISBN:
- Antonyms
- antitrinitarian, nontrinitarian
- Derived terms
- binitarian, untrinitarian