triplicity

American  

[trih-plis-i-tee] / trɪˈplɪs ɪ ti /

noun

• triplicities
  plural

1. the quality or state of being triple; threefold character or condition.

2. a group or combination of three; triad.

3. Astrology. the division of the signs of the zodiac into four groups of three signs each, the fire signs, the earth signs, the air signs, and the water signs, with each sign separated from others within the group by 120 degrees of the ecliptic.

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triplicity British  

/ trɪˈplɪsɪtɪ /

noun

1. a group of three things

2. the state of being three

3. astrology any of four groups, earth, air, fire, and water, each consisting of three signs of the zodiac that are thought to have something in common in their nature

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• triplicities
  plural

Etymology

Origin of triplicity

1350–1400; Middle English triplicite < Late Latin triplicitās threefold state. See triplex, -ity

Example Sentences

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Gabrielle's duplicity soon turns into triplicity, and before the episode ends, she has two more victims.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tobey, of course, discovers Quigley's triplicity and decides to punish him with overindulgence.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the triplicity he signified Ralegh, Cobham, and Northumberland.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Therefore in God there is not triplicity, but Trinity.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Is Duke Alphonso also theological?—perhaps an Arian who objects to triplicity.

From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

The four angles of the horoscope correspond to the four elements, the four triplicities, and the four cardinal points, or epochs, in the soul's involution from pure spirit to the crystallizing, inert, mineral state.

From The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 by Thomas H. Burgoyne

The nativity came to me, and I cast and recast it for the aspects, familiarities, parallels and triplicities of the hour, and always with the same result.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace

The following are the zodiacal signs in their regular order, with proper dates, and the four triplicities.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

It was evident he found more consolation in this than in his philosophical triplicities, for he gradually calmed down and began to lead a more rational life.

From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz