Christendom
See also: christendom
English
Etymology
From Middle English cristendom, cristendome, from Old English crīstendōm, equivalent to Christen + -dom.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪsn̩dəm/
Noun
Christendom (countable and uncountable, plural Christendoms)
- The Christian world. [from 14thc.]
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.
- (Can we date this quote?) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A wide and still widening Christendom.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, 2010, p.503:
- Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (obsolete) The state of being a Christian. [9th-17thc.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter lxiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- And also sire Palomydes auowed neuer to take ful crystendome vnto the tyme that he had done seuen batails within the lystys
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter lxiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- (obsolete) The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Pretty, fond, adoptious Christendoms.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
Related terms
Translations
the Christian world
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