† ˈthrinness Obs.
[OE. orig. þrines, þrynes, -nis, -nys (in obl. case -nesse, -nysse) = OHG. drinissa, f. þri-, combining stem of þré, þréo, three + -ness; later with nn, after thrin, þrinnes, þrynnys; in ME. eventually thrimness, q.v.]
Threefold condition, threeness; the Trinity.
| a 800 Cynewulf Crist 379 Heah and haliᵹ heofon-cund þrynes. 8.. Halsuncge in Rituale Dunelm. 114 Ic eow halsiᵹe..for ða haliᵹan ðrinesse. c 900 tr. Bæda's Eccl. Hist. iv. xix. [xvii.] (1890) 312 We ondettað..Fæder & Sunu & Haliᵹne Gast, Þriᵹnisse in Annisse..ond Annesse in þære Þriᵹnesse. 971 Blickl. Hom. iii. (1880) 29 Of þæm mæᵹene þære Halᵹan Þrynesse. Ibid. xix. (1880) 249 On þære Halᵹan Þrynnysse. c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 10 Ðeos þrynnys is an God. Ibid. 288 Þæs mannes sawl hæfð on hire ᵹecynde þære Halᵹan þrynnysse anlicnysse. a 1300 Athanasian Creed in Hickes Thesaurus (1725) I. 233 Ðat o god inne þrinnesse And þrinness in onnesse Wurchip we þe more and lesse. |