English
holy Trinity
see also: Holy Trinity, holy trinity
Proper noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Holy Trinity#English|Holy Trinity
    • 1685, Henry More, An Illustration of Those Two Abstruse Books in Holy Scripture, the Book of Daniel, and the Revelation of S. John: By Continued, Brief, But Clear Notes, from Chapter to Chapter, and from Verse to Verse: with Very Usefull and Apposite Arguments Prefixt to Each Chapter, page 81:
      ... that it is impossible but that he should have a regard to this very place in his so perpetually using that style touching himself. And therefore it being Christ, it is plain that the second Hypostasis of the holy Trinity is here exhibited in this divine  ...
    • 1827, Thomas Clarkson, William Penn, Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia, page 66:
      Thus, for example, the Bill enacted, that, if any educated in or professing the Christian religion within the realm denied any of the persons in the holy Trinity to be God, they should be liable to a certain punishment ; but he had rather the Bill ...
    • 2010, Larry D. Hart, Truth Aflame, Zondervan (ISBN 9780310864486), page 132:
      And yet the effort is all-important, for the doctrine of the holy Trinity is at the heart of the Christian faith. There is today what might be called a “Trinitarian crisis” in contemporary theology. Just as opponents of orthodoxy redefined the terms in the ...
Holy Trinity
Proper noun
  1. (Christianity) The three persons of the Godhead: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
  2. (US, informal) Three prestigious colleges in the US: Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
  3. (US, informal) Celery, bell peppers and onions, three important ingredients in Cajun cuisine.
Synonyms
holy trinity
Noun

holy Trinity (uncountable)

  1. A triad of people or things which are considered (especially) essential.
    • 2009, Bruce G. Epperly, Katherine Gould Epperly, Tending to the Holy: The Practice of the Presence of God in Ministry (Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 9781566996471), page 49:
      Wonder, praise, and gratitude constitute the holy trinity of worship that inspires, heals, transforms, and challenges pastors and their communities in their quest to be God's companions mending the world.
    • 2014, Susan Dorsey Boland, Put Some Mayo on That (ISBN 9781483409504), page 25:
      This is where I first read Yeats' The Stolen Child, Joyce's Araby, and Synge's Playboy of the Western World, among others. These three for me were the holy trinity of Irish writers and it was on that strand that I succumbed to their enchantment.
Proper noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Holy Trinity#English|Holy Trinity (“three main ingredients of Cajun cuisine”)
    • 1995, National Geographic Traveler:
      It includes the Cajun-Creole holy trinity— onions, celery, and bell peppers.
    • 2007, Terri Pischoff Wuerthner, In a Cajun Kitchen (St. Martin's Press, ISBN 9781429910088), page 5:
      AA simplified description of any Cajun dish based on roux is to make the roux, add the holy trinity and cook for a few minutes, [...]
    • 2016, George Graham, Acadiana Table (Harvard Common Press, ISBN 9781558328693), page 98:
      This beefed-up skillet sauté with the Cajun holy trinity of aromatic vegetables will appeal to the hearty meat-and-potatoes crowd.


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