Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrine that man consists of body, soul, and spirit, or other three essentially different modes of substance.

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Examples

  • His regular displays of racist macho trialism is quite nauseating to behold and tells us much of what we need to know about the problems in the Middle East.

    The True Face of Hamas 2007

  • It was too late to talk of trialism unless it meant independence, and, when it meant that, it did not mean Austrian trialism.

    The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement Frank Alfred Golder 1903

  • Does this suggest an ontological trialism of mind, spirit matter, and coarse matter?

    New Cool Thang 2009

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