[f. prec. + -ITY.] Coessential quality or nature. (Theol.)
1673. Milton, True Relig., Wks. (1851), 410. As for terms of Triunity, Co-essentiality, Tripersonality, and the like, they reject them as Scholastic Notions.
1790. Burgess, Divinity of Christ, 41 (T.). The appellation of the Son of God … implies coessentiality with God.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., II. 992/2. The co-essentiality of the Son.
