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Trinitarian

American  
[trin-i-tair-ee-uhn] / ˌtrɪn ɪˈtɛər i ən /

adjective

  1. believing in or adhering to the doctrine of the Trinity.

  2. pertaining to Trinitarians, or believers in the doctrine of the Trinity.

  3. belonging or pertaining to the religious order of Trinitarians.

  4. of or relating to the Trinity.

  5. (lowercase) forming a trinity; threefold; triple.


noun

  1. a person who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.

  2. a member of the “Order of the Holy Trinity,” a religious order founded in 1198 to redeem Christian captives of the Muslims.

Trinitarian British  
/ ˌtrɪnɪˈtɛərɪən /

noun

  1. a person who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity

  2. a member of the Holy Trinity See Trinity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or relating to the doctrine of the Trinity or those who uphold it

  2. of or relating to the Holy Trinity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

But, in harmony with the other New Testament authors, they emphasized the heavenly Father as God and Jesus as the Messiah and Lord, in keeping with standard Trinitarian theology.

From Newsweek

No Christian concept took more agony and wisdom to formulate than what is probably the central and most impenetrable mystery of the church: the Trinitarian doctrine of three persons in one God.

From Time Magazine Archive

He edited the Massoretic Critical Text of the Hebrew Bible for the Trinitarian Bible Society, 1894, and also Salkinson's translation of the New Testament into Hebrew, 1886.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

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