"Threeness" meaning in English

See Threeness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From Middle English *Threnesse, Thrumnesse, Thrimnesse, from Old English Þrynnes, Þrinness, variants of Old English Þrȳnes, Þrīnes (“Trinity”), equivalent to three + -ness. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|*Threnesse}} Middle English *Threnesse, {{m|enm|Thrumnesse}} Thrumnesse, {{m|enm|Thrimnesse}} Thrimnesse, {{inh|en|ang|Þrynnes}} Old English Þrynnes, {{m|ang|Þrinness}} Þrinness, {{inh|en|ang|Þrȳnes}} Old English Þrȳnes, {{m|ang|Þrīnes||Trinity}} Þrīnes (“Trinity”), {{af|en|three|-ness}} three + -ness Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Threeness
  1. (Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Trinity. Categories (topical): Christianity, Three

Download JSON data for Threeness meaning in English (3.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "*Threnesse"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English *Threnesse",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "Thrumnesse"
      },
      "expansion": "Thrumnesse",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "Thrimnesse"
      },
      "expansion": "Thrimnesse",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "Þrynnes"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English Þrynnes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "Þrinness"
      },
      "expansion": "Þrinness",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "Þrȳnes"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English Þrȳnes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "Þrīnes",
        "3": "",
        "4": "Trinity"
      },
      "expansion": "Þrīnes (“Trinity”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "three",
        "3": "-ness"
      },
      "expansion": "three + -ness",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *Threnesse, Thrumnesse, Thrimnesse, from Old English Þrynnes, Þrinness, variants of Old English Þrȳnes, Þrīnes (“Trinity”), equivalent to three + -ness.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Threeness",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Christianity",
          "orig": "en:Christianity",
          "parents": [
            "Abrahamism",
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Three",
          "orig": "en:Three",
          "parents": [
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Margaret Anne Williams, Glee-wood",
          "text": "[...] and I might not look at the brightness of His face save through a sheen mirror between me and Him that shields my eyes. So I have often seen the Holy Threeness, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, three in one, and but a little while might I bear the light.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Brian Payton, Hail Mary Corner, Dundurn",
          "text": "I'm not sure why God needs three forms — Father, Son, Holy Spirit. I don't know why we just can't say God. ... Jon went on for a while talking about the Trinity, the \"Threeness and Oneness.\" It didn't sound as if he was convinced, though.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jeff Bachl, translated by Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent: Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme, Shambhala, translation of original by Jakob Boehme",
          "text": "Therefore concern yourselves, you philosophers: how God has created this world in six days. For the work of each day is a creation of a spirit in the Holy Threeness, and the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath of God, in the seventh [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Trinity."
      ],
      "id": "en-Threeness-en-name-mGSFapdO",
      "links": [
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ],
        [
          "personae",
          "personae"
        ],
        [
          "Godhead",
          "Godhead"
        ],
        [
          "Father",
          "Father"
        ],
        [
          "Son",
          "Son"
        ],
        [
          "Holy Spirit",
          "Holy Spirit"
        ],
        [
          "Trinity",
          "Trinity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Trinity."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Threeness"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "*Threnesse"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English *Threnesse",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "Thrumnesse"
      },
      "expansion": "Thrumnesse",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "Thrimnesse"
      },
      "expansion": "Thrimnesse",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "Þrynnes"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English Þrynnes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "Þrinness"
      },
      "expansion": "Þrinness",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "Þrȳnes"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English Þrȳnes",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "Þrīnes",
        "3": "",
        "4": "Trinity"
      },
      "expansion": "Þrīnes (“Trinity”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "three",
        "3": "-ness"
      },
      "expansion": "three + -ness",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *Threnesse, Thrumnesse, Thrimnesse, from Old English Þrynnes, Þrinness, variants of Old English Þrȳnes, Þrīnes (“Trinity”), equivalent to three + -ness.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Threeness",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms suffixed with -ness",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Christianity",
        "en:Three"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1949, Margaret Anne Williams, Glee-wood",
          "text": "[...] and I might not look at the brightness of His face save through a sheen mirror between me and Him that shields my eyes. So I have often seen the Holy Threeness, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, three in one, and but a little while might I bear the light.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Brian Payton, Hail Mary Corner, Dundurn",
          "text": "I'm not sure why God needs three forms — Father, Son, Holy Spirit. I don't know why we just can't say God. ... Jon went on for a while talking about the Trinity, the \"Threeness and Oneness.\" It didn't sound as if he was convinced, though.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jeff Bachl, translated by Michael L. Birkel, Genius of the Transcendent: Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme, Shambhala, translation of original by Jakob Boehme",
          "text": "Therefore concern yourselves, you philosophers: how God has created this world in six days. For the work of each day is a creation of a spirit in the Holy Threeness, and the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath of God, in the seventh [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Trinity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ],
        [
          "personae",
          "personae"
        ],
        [
          "Godhead",
          "Godhead"
        ],
        [
          "Father",
          "Father"
        ],
        [
          "Son",
          "Son"
        ],
        [
          "Holy Spirit",
          "Holy Spirit"
        ],
        [
          "Trinity",
          "Trinity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christianity) In Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Trinity."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Threeness"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.