christendom

Noun
Synonyms: ChristendomChristianity

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia)“for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom”Synonyms: ChristendomChristianity
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Christendom \Chris"ten*dom\, n. [AS. cristend[=o]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. [1913 Webster]

2.The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. [1913 Webster]

The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.— Milton[1913 Webster]
A wide and still widening Christendom.— Coleridge.[1913 Webster]

4.The whole body of Christians. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]

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