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trichotomy

[ trih-kot-uh-mee ]

noun

plural trichotomies.
  1. division into three parts, classes, categories, etc.
  2. an instance of such a division, as in thought, structure, or object.
  3. the three-part division of human beings into body, spirit, and soul.


trichotomy

/ 藢tr瑟k蓹藞t蓲m瑟k; tra瑟藞k蓲t蓹m瑟 /

noun

  1. division into three categories
  2. theol the division of man into body, spirit, and soul
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • trichotomic, adjective
  • 迟谤颈藞肠丑辞迟辞尘辞耻蝉濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 迟谤颈肠丑路辞路迟辞尘路颈肠 [trik-, uh, -, tom, -ik], 迟谤颈路肠丑辞迟顎僶路尘辞耻蝉 adjective
  • 迟谤颈路肠丑辞迟顎僶路尘辞耻蝉路ly adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of trichotomy1

1600鈥10; < New Latin trichotomia < Greek 迟谤铆肠丑 ( a ) in three parts + New Latin -tomia -tomy
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of trichotomy1

C17: probably from New Latin trichotomia , from Greek trikhotomein to divide into three, from trikha triple + temnein to cut
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As agonizing as this emergency decision would be, the setup plays like a false trichotomy, compounded by ancillary ironies contrived for dramatic purposes.

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Typical Connectives but, while, however, nonetheless, yet despite, even though One other major coherence relation doesn鈥檛 easily fit into Hume鈥檚 trichotomy, attribution: so-and-so believes such-and-such.

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鈥楾hey knew that dichotomy, and not trichotomy, was for our times the law of the nation鈥檚 life.鈥

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With these views agree the later doctrines of the Bible as to the "trichotomy" of "body, soul, and spirit" in man, and of the added influence of the Spirit of God as acting on humanity.

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Valentinus avails himself of the notion of the trichotomy of human nature, and gives a place for the bulk of Christians, those who did not embrace Gnosticism; cf.

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