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
- Christendom is astray in the Bible.
- The Ferengi were the Crusaders of Christendom.
- This has always been the understanding of Christendom.
- Christendom was outraged and the King filled with remorse.
- The Holy Grail is of interest to Christendom, not to Judaism.
- Albania lies at the junction of Catholic and Orthodox Christendom.
- There is wrong afoot here and there is wrong at the heart of christendom.
- He made the capital of Christendom, Rome, the center of European culture.
- Despite all its secularism, the Western world is the inheritor of Christendom.
- John desired to pose as the champion of Christendom against the Ottoman Turks.
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