† ˈthrimness Obs.
Forms: 2 þrimnis, þreomnes, 2–3 þrem-, þrim-, (Orm.) þrimmnesse, 3 þrum- (ü).
[Early ME. alteration of OE. þrines, þrinnes, thrinness. The change may have been due to association with OE. þrymm thrum n.1, majesty, glory, and its compounds, as þrymsetl throne, þrymsittende (cf. ‘seo þrynis þrymsittende’, ‘the Trinity sitting in glory’); but in that case we should have expected the form with þrym to have appeared in OE.]
The Trinity. Cf. threeness.
| a 1175 Cott. Hom. 219 Þeos þrimnis is an god. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 99 He scal ileafan on þa halȝa þreomnesse and on soðre annesse. Ibid. 101 Þere halȝan þremnesse. c 1200 Ormin 11177 Þatt iss an Unnseȝȝenndliȝ þrimmnesse, Faderr, & Sune, & Haliȝ Gast. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 25 Þe holie þremnesse shop and biwalt alle shafte. a 1225 St. Marher. 11 Þrumnesse þreo fald ant anfaldte hweðere. a 1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 259 Þe hali þrumnesse, feader ant sune ant hali gast. |