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triplicities

triplicities is the plural of triplicity.

Meaning of triplicity

Noun

triplicity (countable and uncountable, plural triplicities)

  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. 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...1693, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The Third Book (originally by François Rabelais) Chapter 25

Questions about triplicities

What is triplicities the plural of?
Triplicities is the plural of triplicity.

Words near triplicities in the dictionary

  1. triplications
  2. triplicative
  3. Triplice
  4. Triplicist
  5. Triplicists
  6. triplicities
  7. triplicity
  8. triplicostate
  9. tripliform
  10. triplike
  11. tripline

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