holy trinity
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.86 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Celery, bell peppers, and onions, three important ingredients in Cajun cuisine.
American usage; Informal
name
Alternative letter-case form of Holy Trinity.
noun
A triad of people or things considered essential.
noun
A triad of people or things considered essential.
name
Alternative letter-case form of Holy Trinity (“three main ingredients of Cajun cuisine”).
Example Sentences
- "... 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 ..."
- "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 ..."
- "And yet the effort is all-important, for the doctrine of the holy Trinity is at the heart of the Christian faith. There is today what might be called a “Trinitarian crisis” in contemporary theology. Just as opponents of orthodoxy redefined the terms in the ..."
- "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."
- "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."
- "The plans are to replace this stadium, that is over 100 years old and has played host to the Busby Babes - the only other United side to win a game by a 5-4 scoreline when they beat Arsenal in the match before the Munich tragedy - the Holy Trinity of George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton, double and Treble winners, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney."
Etymology
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.
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Inflected Forms
the Holy Trinity (canonical)
holy trinities (plural)