triplicity

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/tɹɪˈplɪsɪti/

noun

The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.

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trigon
OriginLatin triplicitas →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nountriplicity (countable and uncountable, plural triplicities)

plural triplicities

  1. countableuncountableThe quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.

    In their trinall triplicities on hye

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39
  2. countableuncountableastrologyThe division of the twelve signs according to the four elements.
    1 more example

    he very promptly and speedily formed and fashioned a complete fabric of the houses of heaven in all their parts, whereof when he had considered the situation and the aspects in their triplicities, he fetched a deep sigh, and said: I have clearly enough already discovered unto you the fate of your cuckoldry, which is unavoidable, you cannot escape it.

    1693, Thomas Urquhart (translator), The Third Book (originally by François Rabelais) Chapter 25

Synonyms & antonyms

noun(astrology) one of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees

Similar
trigon
Broader
triotriadtriplet
Also see
trigon

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latintriplex
  2. Latintriplicitas
  3. Englishtriplicity

From triplic(ate) + -ity, from Latin triplicitas, from Latin triplex, triplicis (“threefold”). Compare French triplicité. See triplicate.

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Translations

French triplicité
  • triplicitéstate of being threefold
German Triplizität, Dreifaltigkeit
  • Triplizitätstate of being threefold
  • Dreifaltigkeitstate of being threefold
  • Dreiergruppestate of being threefold
  • Dreifachheitstate of being threefold
  • Dreiheitstate of being threefold
Latin triplicitās
  • triplicitāsstate of being threefold

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with triplicity

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Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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