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Christendom
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christendom
English
Alternative forms
en Christiandom Christdom
Etymology
From en enm cristendom, enm cristendome, from en ang cristendōm, equivalent to en Christen -dom.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɹɪsn̩dəm/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Christendom.wav Southern England
Noun
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The Christian world; en Christ#Proper noun Christ's en Church Christendom on Earth. from 14th c.
The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.
en 1825 w:Samuel Taylor Coleridge Aids to Reflection https://archive.org/details/aidstoreflection03cole Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion 184 The result is contained in the fact of a wide and still widening Christendom.
en 2009 w:Diarmaid MacCulloch A History of Christianity 503 Penguin 2010 Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.
en now rare The state of being a (devout) Christian; Christian belief or faith. from 9th c.
IV i 11 2 By my Chriſtendome, So I were out of priſon, and kept Sheepe, I ſhould be as merry as the day is long.
en 1643 w:Jeremy Taylor Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Epiſcopacy R. Royſton 101 https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/Of_the_Sacred_Order_and_Offices_of_Episc/gnxmAAAAcAAJ and yet cannot be denied that ſo it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Chriſtendome ſuſpected.
en 12 March 2015 1934 2 Kenneth Pickthorn Early Tudor Government Cambridge University Press 137 https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/Early_Tudor_Government/JrKwBgAAQBAJ Especially about law and its obligatory force was Cromwell's head clear, making clearer distinctions than Wolsey with his conscience or More with his Christendom.
en obsolete The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
233 but for an Author to renounce his Chriſtendome to write in his owne commendation, to refuſe the name which his Godfathers and Godmothers gaue him in his baptiſme , and call himſelfe a wellwiller to both the writers
I i 231 2 His faith, his ſweet diſaſter: with a world Of pretty fond adoptious chriſtendomes That blinking Cupid goſſips.
Related terms
en Christ
en Christian
en Christianity
Translations
the Christian world
Arabic: ar العَالَم المَسِيحِيّ m
Aromanian: rup crishtinãtati f, rup crishtinami f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 基督教 Jīdūjiào, cmn 基督教世界 Jīdūjiào shìjiè
Danish: da kristenhed c, da kristne verden c, da kristendom c
Dutch: nl christenheid f
Esperanto: eo kristanaro collective noun; kristano + -aro, eo kristanujo kristano + -ujo
Finnish: fi kristikunta
French: fr chrétienté f
Friulian: fur cristianitât f
Galician: gl cristiandade f
German: de Christenheit f, de Christentum n, de Christenwelt f
Greek: el χριστιανοσύνη f
Hebrew: he אֱדוֹם edóm Medieval Hebrew, he נַצְרוּת f natsrút
Hindi: hi आलम-ए-मसीहियत f
Hungarian: hu kereszténység
Irish: ga Críostaíocht f An Chríostaíocht, ga An Domhan Críostaí m
Italian: it cristianità f
Japanese: ja キリスト教世界 kirisuto-kyō sekai
Korean: ko 기독교계
Latin: la rēspūblica Chrīstiāna f, la Chrīstiānitās f
Macedonian: mk христија́нство n
Polish: pl świat chrześcijański m
Portuguese: pt cristandade f
Romanian: ro creștinătate f
Russian: ru христианский мир m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh хришћанство n, sh кршћанство n
Latin: sh hrišćanstvo n, sh kršćanstvo n
Sicilian: scn cristianità f, scn cristianitati f
Spanish: es cristiandad f
Swedish: sv kristenhet c
Tagalog: tl sangkakristiyanuhan
Thai: th คริสตจักร krít-dtà-jàk
Turkish: tr Hıristiyanlık
Urdu: ur عالم مسیحیت f 'ālam-e-masīhiyat
Volapük: collective noun vo kritanef, vo kritanefavol, vo kritavol, vo vol kritik, vo kritanavol, vo vol kritanik
Yiddish: yi די קריסטלעכע וועלט f, yi אדום n edem
See also
en Hindudom Hindu world
en Dar al-Islam, en Islamdom, en Islamosphere, en Muslimdom the Muslim world
en Edom in medieval times, a Jewish term referring to Christian countries
en Jewry, en Klal Yisrael, en Jewdom collective terms for Jewish people
en eponyms
en Christianity Collectives Theocracy