See also: trinitarian

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Etymology

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From French trinitaire (from Medieval Latin trinitarius, from Latin trinitas + -arius) +‎ -ian.

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Trinitarian (plural Trinitarians)

  1. Someone who believes in the Trinity, the three persons of the Godhead.
  2. A member of the Trinitarian order.

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Trinitarian (not comparable)

  1. Believing in the Trinity.
  2. Of or pertaining to the Trinity (the three persons of the Godhead) or to the doctrine of Trinity.
    • 2010, Anne Hunt, The Trinity: Insights from the Mystics[1], →ISBN:
      The influence of trinitarian iconography is evident to varying degrees. Teresa and Elizabeth, for example, make reference to particular visual images of the Trinity.
  3. (uncommon) Of or pertaining to a trinity, a group of three (almost exclusively when compared to the Christian Trinity).
    • 1916, The North American Review, page 400:
      In polytheism we find also a tendency to a trinitarian grouping of gods, and in each threefold group one god who was at least primus inter pares.
    • 1985, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Alan of Lille's Grammar of Sex: The Meaning of Grammar to a Twelfth-century Intellectual, Medieval Academy of Amer, page 44:
      See PL 210.54C and James J. Sheridan's stimulating observations on the Trinitarian grouping of Nature, Genius, and Truth (in his note on p. 218).
    • a. 1977, Maulana Abdul Haq Vidyarthi, Allah, The Unique Name of God, A.A.I.I.L. (U.K.) (→ISBN), page 47:
      It is in Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics: []
      In Indian religion, e.g., we meet with the trinitarian group of Brahmā, Śiva, and Viṣṇu, and in Egyptian religion with the trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis, and Horus,
    • 2010, Ebrahim Kazim, Scientific Commentary of Suratul Faateḥah, Pharos Media & Publishing, →ISBN:
      [] The ancient Egyptians believed in the Trinitarian group of Osiris, Isis and Horus while the Hindus had Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, and the later Christians described God as God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
    • 2013, Hyo-Dong Lee, Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude: A Comparative Theology for the Democracy of Creation, Fordham Univ Press, →ISBN:
      [] singularity is transformed into the trinitarian triad of abstract unity (universality), differentiation (particularity and finite singularity), and return (infinite singularity),

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