Definition of Christendom. Meaning of Christendom. Synonyms of Christendom

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Definition of Christendom

Christendom
Christendom Chris"ten*dom, n. [AS. cristend?m; cristen a Christian + -dom.] 1. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.] Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. --Shak. 3. That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. --Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. --Coleridge. 4. The whole body of Christians. --Hooker.

Meaning of Christendom from wikipedia

- The terms Christendom or Christian world commonly refer to the global Christian community, Christian states, Christian-majority countries or countries...
- Christendom College is a private Catholic college in Front Royal, Virginia, United States. It was established in 1977. Christendom College was founded...
- The Seven Champions of Christendom is an epithet referring to St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, St. Denis, St. James Boanerges, St. Anthony the Lesser...
- understanding of the afterlife distinctive of the direction that Latin Christendom would take: As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before...
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- nation-states, reducing crime and violence but making the ideal of a unified Christendom more distant. Intellectual life was marked by scholasticism, a philosophy...
- five patriarchs of the Pentarchy, "the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees under the au****es of a single universal empire...
- the majority of Christians have lived in Western nations, once called Christendom, and often conceptualized as "European Christian" civilization. A post-Christian...
- Mediterranean world, the Latin West of the Roman Empire, and "Western Christendom". Beginning with the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, roughly from...
- Anthony Weldon claimed that James had been termed "the wisest fool in Christendom" (wise in small things, foolish otherwise) an epithet ****ociated with...