Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Christians considered as a group.
- n. The Christian world.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.
- n. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation.
- n. That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands.
- n. The whole body of Christians.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, adoption of faith in Christ; personal Christianity; baptism.
- n. The part of the world in which the Christian religion predominates; the Christian world.
- n. The whole body of Christians.
- n. [lowercase] The name received at baptism; hence, any name or epithet.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia)
Etymologies
Examples
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As these separated communities when massed together, indeed in some cases even of themselves, count a vast number of souls, among whom many are conspicuous for their religious earnestness, this extension of the term Christendom to include them all has its solid justification.
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If, then, we limit the application of the term Christendom to this, its most authentic expression, the unity of Christendom is not a lost ideal to be recovered, but a stupendous reality which has always been in stable possession.
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People meant what they said when they said the word Christendom.
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(By the way, Carl, the link on Dividing of Christendom is broken.)
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"There's not a magazine in Christendom that would dare to publish it — you know that."
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Even in Christendom, it is presumed our minds and hearts are frequently deceived.
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Sadly, what is unimaginable in Christendom has not only occurred, but passes virtually without recognition, in the Islamic world.
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Anti-Semitism (and its supposed Scriptural and religious justification) was prevalent in Christendom for many centuries leading up to the holocaust.
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Ecclesiastical term as of a bishop without a see in Christendom
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But the idea of Heaven Above has no literal meaning, something rather upsetting to many in Christendom when Galileo kept insisting upon pointing it out.
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