holy trinity
holy trinity noun: a triad of people or things considered essential. Also the alternative letter-case form of Holy Trinity.
Noun
holy trinity (plural holy trinities)
- A triad of people or things considered essential.
- Wonder, praise, and gratitude constitute the holy trinity of worship that inspires, heals, transforms, and challenges pastors and their communities in their quest to be God's companions mending the world.2009, Bruce G. Epperly, Katherine Gould Epperly, Tending to the Holy: The Practice of the Presence of God in Ministry, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 49
- This is where I first read Yeats' The Stolen Child, Joyce's Araby, and Synge's Playboy of the Western World, among others. These three for me were the holy trinity of Irish writers and it was on that strand that I succumbed to their enchantment.2014, Susan Dorsey Boland, Put Some Mayo on That, →ISBN, page 25
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Holy Trinity
the Holy Trinity
- The three persons of the Godhead: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- Three prestigious colleges in the US: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
- Celery, bell peppers, and onions, three important ingredients in Cajun cuisine.
- The combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and carisoprodol.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: holy Trinity
holy Trinity
- Alternative letter-case form of Holy Trinity.
- ... that it is impossible but that he should have a regard to this very place in his so perpetually using that style touching himself. And therefore it being Christ, it is plain that the second Hypostasis of the holy Trinity is here exhibited in this divine ...1685, Henry More, An Illustration of Those Two Abstruse Books in Holy Scripture, the Book of Daniel, and the Revelation of S. John: By Continued, Brief, But Clear Notes, from Chapter to Chapter, and...
- Thus, for example, the Bill enacted, that, if any educated in or professing the Christian religion within the realm denied any of the persons in the holy Trinity to be God, they should be liable to a certain punishment ; but he had rather the Bill ...1827, Thomas Clarkson, William Penn, Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia, page 66
Also used as
holy trinity is also the alternative letter-case form of Holy Trinity.
Synonyms of holy trinity
Forms of holy trinity
| Noun | |
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| plural | holy trinities |
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| alternative form | holy Trinity |
| alternative form | holy trinity |
Origin of holy trinity
Alluding to the Holy Trinity that Trinitarian Christians worship.
From Middle English holy Trinitee, a partial translation of earlier hali þrumnesse, haliʒ ðrymnesse (“holy trinity”, literally “holy threeness”), from Old English hālgu þrines. Equivalent to holy + Trinity.
Questions about holy trinity
- What does holy trinity mean?
- Holy trinity means a triad of people or things considered essential.
- What part of speech is holy trinity?
- Holy trinity can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of holy trinity?
- The plural of holy trinity is holy trinities.
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