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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Etymology

Origin of triplicity

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

Example Sentences

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

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

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

"The general break-up of the world," they said, "will happen when the stars which govern the heaven, penetrated with a quality of heat and dryness, meet one another in a fiery triplicity."

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

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

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