Christendom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪsn̩dəm/
Forms: form: Christendoms
form: Christiandom
form: Christdom
Etymology: From Middle English cristendom, cristendome, from Old English cristendōm, equivalent to Christen + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.
ref: 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:
text: The result is contained in the fact of a wide and still widening Christendom.
ref: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion”, in Aids to Reflection, page 184:
text: Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 503:
glosses: The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth.
examples: text: By my Chriſtendome, So I were out of priſon, and kept Sheepe, I ſhould be as merry as the day is long.
ref: 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:
text: […]and yet cannot be denied that ſo it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Chriſtendome ſuſpected.
ref: 1643, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Epiſcopacy […] , R. Royſton, page 101:
text: 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.
ref: 2015 March 12 [1934], Kenneth Pickthorn, Early Tudor Government, volume 2, Cambridge University Press, page 137:
glosses: The state of being a (devout) Christian; Christian belief or faith.
examples: text: […]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[…]
ref: 1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC:
text: His faith, his ſweet diſaſter: with a world
 Of pretty fond adoptious chriſtendomes
 That blinking Cupid goſſips.
ref: 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:
glosses: The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
Related terms: word: Christ
word: Christian
word: Christianity
english: in medieval times, a Jewish term referring to Christian countries
translation: in medieval times, a Jewish term referring to Christian countries
word: Edom
word: Jewry
english: collective terms for Jewish people
translation: collective terms for Jewish people
word: Klal Yisrael
english: the Muslim world
translation: the Muslim world
word: Dar al-Islam