triplicity

English

Etymology

From Latin triplex, triplicis (“threefold”). Compare French triplicité. See triplicate.

Noun

triplicity (countable and uncountable, plural triplicities)

  1. The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.
    In their trinal triplicities on high. — Spenser.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for triplicity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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