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trinal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• [ˈtɹʌɪn̩l] (UK)
• /ˈtɹaɪnəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtɹʌɪnəl/ (UK)

Etymology

From the Medieval Latin trīnālis.

Meanings

1. (archaic, not-comparable) Having three parts; triple.
   • The trinal division of body, mind and soul becomes a unity, a holy trinity. And with it the realization that one aspect of our nature cannot be exalted above another... 1941, Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart:
   • Like as it had bene many an Angels voice, // Singing before th’ eternall maiesty, // 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 XXXIX, page 181:

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