christendom
IPA: krˈɪsʌndʌm
Root Word: Christendom
noun
- The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth.
- (now rare) The state of being a (devout) Christian; Christian belief or faith.
- (obsolete) The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
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Examples of "christendom" in Sentences
- The overriding pastoral equivocation and protestantised liturgical NO rite have devastated christendom.
- Chapter 7: The Reliability of the Bible 1. H. M. Kuitert, Jezus, nalatenschap van het christendom Baarn: Ten Have, 1998, 176.
- Immigratie is massale immigratie van de Afrikaanse, de islam en Aziatische mensen, die geen begrip hebben over democratie en ze zijn tegen het christendom (christenen?).
- You are right that the states that previously considered themselves a part of christendom retain similar anachronistic vestiges, but they make little or nothing of such vestiges.
- I have been involved in this whole Emerg [ing | ent] line of questioning and exploration, and yet it seems many of our attempts to reengage the culture get hung up in christendom models.
- The deeds that He did are the history of the manifestations of His character, and the story of His christendom is the continued manifestation of His life, the divine life in the life of man, made divine through Him.
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