triune en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌtraɪˈjuːn/
- /ˈtraɪˌjuːn/
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Etymology
PIE word *tréyes Borrowed from New Latin triūnus.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Both trine and one at the same time.
The entire member seems a dense webbed bed of welded sinews; but cut into it, and you find that three distinct strata compose it:—upper, middle, and lower. […]. This triune structure, as much as anything else, imparts power to the tail.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 86, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:2003, Jeffrey C. Pugh, Entertaining the Triune Mystery, Continuum International Publishing Group (Trinity Press International), page 80, Because the triune God is seen in ways that reflect relationality, God's presence can be expressed in the world in such a way that gnostic separation of the world and God should not be allowed to be a central part of Christian belief.
Christians believe in a triune God, meaning that he is three hypostases in perfect unity.
1990, Mary Ann Fatula, The Triune God of Christian Faith, Liturgical Press (Michael Glazier Books), page 21, To be Christian today thus means reflective and critical fidelity to the essential elements of our Christian heritage in scripture and tradition, yet in a way that enables us to respond to the ever new presence of the triune God active in our own experience and world.
And in a double movement, the descent of the eternal Son is the Triune God's movement to initiate and enable reconciliation decisively with humanity, which is then followed by the ascent of the human Christ to continue the enabled relationship with the Triune God.
2014, Dick O. Eugenio, Communion with the Triune God, Wipf and Stock, unnumbered page:
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(not-comparable) Of an artistic or literary work composed of three parts united by a single theme.
And, with that end, Zeus reëmerges as the divine protagonist of the triune drama.
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. The Orestea: III. Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 234:
Coordinates
Deriveds
triunity · triuneness · triune brain · triunely
Relateds
triunion · Trimurti · Triple Goddess · trinitarian · trinity
Translations (22)
cs trojjediný (both three and one at the same time) · pt triúno (both three and one at the same time) · bg триеди́нен (both three and one at the same time) · is þríeinn (both three and one at the same time) · mk троичен (both three and one at the same time) · sv treenig (both three and one at the same time) · sh тро̏један (both three and one at the same time) · ru триеди́ный (both three and one at the same time) · la triūnus (both three and one at the same time) · uk триєди́ний (both three and one at the same time) · nl drie-enig (both three and one at the same time) · it trino (both three and one at the same time) · fi kolmiyhteinen (both three and one at the same time) · es triuno (both three and one at the same time) · de dreieinig (both three and one at the same time) · pl trójjedyny (both three and one at the same time) · fr trin (both three and one at the same time) · mk троеден (both three and one at the same time) · sh trȍjedan (both three and one at the same time) · be трыадзі́ны (both three and one at the same time) · fi kolminainen (both three and one at the same time) · pt trino (both three and one at the same time)