tripartition

Example Sentences

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There are two, if not three Limericks in one, a shamrock tripartition, a trinity in unity,—English-town, Irish-town, and New Town Perry.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

Curiously enough, the same tripartition of the wrong attitude towards the gods occurs already in the Republic, ii. p. 365d, where it is introduced incidentally as well known and a matter of course.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg

And the text moreover states the original tripartition to have taken place after the differentiation of names and forms: 'That divinity having entered into these three beings differentiated names and forms.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

In case of the larger formations, and especially of the army corps as being the tactical and operative unit, the principle of tripartition must be observed.

From Germany and the Next War by Bernhardi, Friedrich von

His versification is of an early type; the principle of tripartition, which became predominant in troubadour poetry at a later date, is hardly perceptible in his poems.

From The Troubadours by Chaytor, H.J.