Trinitarian
Americanadjective
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believing in or adhering to the doctrine of the Trinity.
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pertaining to Trinitarians, or believers in the doctrine of the Trinity.
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belonging or pertaining to the religious order of Trinitarians.
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of or relating to the Trinity.
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(lowercase) forming a trinity; threefold; triple.
noun
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a person who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.
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a member of the “Order of the Holy Trinity,” a religious order founded in 1198 to redeem Christian captives of the Muslims.
noun
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a person who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity
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a member of the Holy Trinity See Trinity
adjective
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of or relating to the doctrine of the Trinity or those who uphold it
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of or relating to the Holy Trinity
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Trinitarian
1555–65; < New Latin trīnitāri ( us ) of the Trinity ( see Trinity, -ary) + -an
Example Sentences
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It’s “our crown and our cross,” said the Trinitarian Rev. James Day, president of DeMatha.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2021
He thought he was a Jew, who worshipped God and not himself: he doesn't even seem to have been bothered much by the niceties of Trinitarian theology.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2014
They rejected the Arian view and clarified the Trinitarian view, using technical Greek philosophical terms in which the debate had come to be conducted at that time.
From Newsweek
Likewise, the Trinitarian formula, baldly stated, can be impervious to human comprehension, instead of being a meaningful mystery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Monophysitism was not a Trinitarian heresy, and the Catholic doctrine of the three persons in the godhead was the official creed of the heretical church.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
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