holy trinity

plural holy trinities

1. A triad of people or things considered essential.

   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.

   2009, Bruce G. Epperly, Katherine Gould Epperly, Tending to the Holy: The Practice of the Presence of God in Ministry, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 49

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   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.

   2014, Susan Dorsey Boland, Put Some Mayo on That, →ISBN, page 25

   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.

   2025 April 17, Simon Stone, “Manchester United 5-4 Olympique Lyonnais”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2025

   1. Any of several triads of core ingredients of certain cuisines, as for example celery, onions, and carrots in soffritto or mirepoix, or onions, peppers, and tomato in sofrito.

1. Alternative letter-case form of Holy Trinity (“three main ingredients of Cajun cuisine”).

   It includes the Cajun-Creole holy trinity— onions, celery, and bell peppers.

   1995, National Geographic Traveler

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   AA simplified description of any Cajun dish based on roux is to make the roux, add the holy trinity and cook for a few minutes, [...]

   2007, Terri Pischoff Wuerthner, In a Cajun Kitchen, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 5

   This beefed-up skillet sauté with the Cajun holy trinity of aromatic vegetables will appeal to the hearty meat-and-potatoes crowd.

   2016, George Graham, Acadiana Table, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 98

alternative holy Trinity · alternative holy trinity

1. ChristianityThe three persons of the Godhead: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

   Synonyms: Trinity, Threeness, Holy Threeness

2. USinformalThree prestigious colleges in the US: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
3. USinformalCelery, bell peppers, and onions, three important ingredients in Cajun cuisine.
4. informalmedicineThe combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and carisoprodol.

1. Alternative letter-case form of Holy Trinity.

   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 ...

   1827, Thomas Clarkson, William Penn, Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia, page 66

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   ... 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 ...

   1685, Henry More, An Illustration of Those Two Abstruse Books in Holy Scripture, the Book of Daniel, and the Revelation of S. John: By Continued, Brief, But Clear Notes, from Chapter to Chapter, and from Verse to Verse: with Very Usefull and Apposite Arguments Prefixt to Each Chapter, page 81

   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 ...

   2010, Larry D. Hart, Truth Aflame, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 132