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Christendom en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɹɪsn̩dəm/
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Etymology

From Middle English cristendom, cristendome, from Old English cristendōm, equivalent to Christen + -dom.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth.
   • The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
   • Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 503:
   • The result is contained in the fact of a wide and still widening Christendom. 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion”, in Aids to Reflection, page 184:
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The state of being a (devout) Christian; Christian belief or faith.
   • 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. 2015 March 12 [1934], Kenneth Pickthorn, Early Tudor Government, volume 2, Cambridge University Press, page 137:
   • By my Chriſtendome, So I were out of priſon, and kept Sheepe, I ſhould be as merry as the day is long. c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 11, column 2:
   • […]and yet cannot be denied that ſo it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Chriſtendome ſuſpected. 1643, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Epiſcopacy […] , R. Royſton, page 101:
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
   • […]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[…] 1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC:
   • His faith, his ſweet diſaſter: with a world Of pretty fond adoptious chriſtendomes That blinking Cupid goſſips. c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 231, column 2:

Forms

Relateds

Islamdom · Klal Yisrael · Dar al-Islam · Hindudom · Christ · Jewry · Muslimdom · Christian · Islamosphere · Christianity · Edom · Jewdom

Translations (53)

cmn 基督教 (the Christian world) · he אֱדוֹם (the Christian world) · sh kršćanstvo (the Christian world) · vo kritanef (the Christian world) · ko 기독교계 (the Christian world) · yi אדום (the Christian world) · fr chrétienté (the Christian world) · sh хришћанство (the Christian world) · mk христија́нство (the Christian world) · da kristenhed (the Christian world) · da kristne verden (the Christian world) · la Chrīstiānitās (the Christian world) · ru христианский мир (the Christian world) · ga An Domhan Críostaí (the Christian world) · ro creștinătate (the Christian world) · yi די קריסטלעכע וועלט (the Christian world) · vo vol kritik (the Christian world) · vo kritanavol (the Christian world) · tr Hıristiyanlık (the Christian world) · sh кршћанство (the Christian world) · vo vol kritanik (the Christian world) · de Christenheit (the Christian world) · rup crishtinãtati (the Christian world) · rup crishtinami (the Christian world) · nl christenheid (the Christian world) · de Christentum (the Christian world) · ga An Chríostaíocht (the Christian world) · hi आलम-ए-मसीहियत (the Christian world) · pl świat chrześcijański (the Christian world) · sv kristenhet (the Christian world) · pt cristandade (the Christian world) · la rēspūblica Chrīstiāna (the Christian world) · cmn 基督教世界 (the Christian world) · tl sangkakristiyanuhan (the Christian world) · he נַצְרוּת (the Christian world) · ar العَالَم المَسِيحِيّ (the Christian world) · ja キリスト教世界 (the Christian world) · fur cristianitât (the Christian world) · ur عالم مسیحیت (the Christian world) · sh hrišćanstvo (the Christian world) · it cristianità (the Christian world) · da kristendom (the Christian world) · hu kereszténység (the Christian world) · fi kristikunta (the Christian world) · gl cristiandade (the Christian world) · scn cristianitati (the Christian world) · vo kritanefavol (the Christian world) · th คริสตจักร (the Christian world) · vo kritavol (the Christian world) · de Christenwelt (the Christian world) · el χριστιανοσύνη (the Christian world) · es cristiandad (the Christian world) · scn cristianità (the Christian world)