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unholy trinities

unholy trinities is the plural of unholy trinity.

Meaning of unholy trinity

Noun

unholy trinity (plural unholy trinities)

  1. A set of three antagonistic and closely associated people or things.
    • In her essay "Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View," Alice Walker deems Hurston, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith "an unholy trinity."2005, Cheryl A. Wall, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition
  2. Synonym of impossible trinity.

Questions about unholy trinities

What is unholy trinities the plural of?
Unholy trinities is the plural of unholy trinity.

Words near unholy trinities in the dictionary

  1. unholstered
  2. unholstering
  3. unholsters
  4. unholy
  5. unholy alliance
  6. unholy trinities
  7. unholy trinity
  8. unholy water
  9. unhome
  10. unhomed
  11. unhomelike

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