Quaternity

Quick meaning: Quaternity is a noun meaning A group or set of four; a foursome, a quartet.

Meaning

A group or set of four; a foursome, a quartet.

More Meanings

1. Synonym of quarter (“a fourth part”).
2. (uncountable) Synonym of fourness (“the property or state of being four in number”).

Example Sentences

The firſt vvith divers crooks and turnings vvries, / Cutting the tovvn in foure quaternities; / But both joyn to reſiſt invading enemies.

Some that in mystical quaternity / All Deity existed; and the first / Y'cleped Ineffable, and the last, Truth; / Father and Son, gods intermediate.

[T]heir VVhole Scale, of all that is above the Body, vvas indeed not a Trinity, but a Quaternity, or Four Ranks and Degrees of Beings, one belovv another; the Firſt of Henades or Unities, the Second of Noes, Minds or Intellects, the Third of Souls, and the Laſt of Natures: theſe being as it vvere ſo many Orbs and Spheres, one vvithin and belovv another.

Word Forms

• quaternities

Synonyms for quaternity

Depending on context, synonyms include foursome, quadruplet, quadruplicity, quadrad, quaternion, quartet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quaternion, quatern, tetrad, four, quaternary, quartet.

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