Christendom [kris-uh n-duh m] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- Christians collectively.
- the Christian world.
- Christianity.
Origin of Christendom before 900; Middle English; Old English cristendōm. See Christian, -dom Examples from the Web for christendom Contemporary Examples of christendom
Remember the days of post-9/11 civilizational war, of weltkampf between Islam and Christendom?
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Michael Moynihan
February 6, 2014
Indeed, all the popes in history – even the African popes of early Christendom – have come from north of the line.
Southern Discomfort in Election of Pope
Christopher Dickey, Mac Margolis
March 13, 2013
And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.
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The Daily Beast
February 20, 2012
Among them are the 96 members of the United States Senate, perhaps the windiest and most tedious group of men in Christendom.
David Frum
February 3, 2012
Historical Examples of christendom
In a hundred things, I think London quite the finest town of Christendom.
James Fenimore Cooper
There goes a Polish Count who is one of the greatest gamblers in Christendom.
Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
And why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole Christendom?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I thought I had made the acquaintance of all the perpetual curates in Christendom.
Hall Caine
How should a wife not love her man, the wisest, canniest prince in Christendom, too!
Charlotte M. Yonge
British Dictionary definitions for christendom Christendom noun
- the collective body of Christians throughout the world or throughout history
- an obsolete word for Christianity
Word Origin and History for christendom Christendom n.
Old English cristendom “Christianity, state of being a Christian,” from cristen (see Christian) + -dom, suffix of condition or quality. The native formation, crowded out by Latinate Christianity except for sense “lands where Christianity is the dominant religion” (late 14c.). Similar formations in Scandinavian languages.