triplicity
noun/tɹɪˈplɪsɪti/
Etymology From triplic(ate) + -ity, from Latin triplicitas, from Latin triplex, triplicis (“threefold”). Compare French triplicité. See triplicate.
1
The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.
- In their trinall triplicities on hye1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:
2
Astrology, Human sciences, Mysticism, Philosophy, Sciences The division of the twelve signs according to the four elements.
- he very promptly and speedily formed and fashioned a complete fabric of the houses of heaven in all their parts, whereof when he had considered the situation and the aspects in their triplicities, he fetched a deep sigh, and said: I have clearly enough already discovered unto you the fate of your cuckoldry, which is unavoidable, you cannot escape it.1693, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The Third Book (originally by François Rabelais) Chapter 25