Christendom

See also christendom

English

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Etymology

Old English cristendōm, corresponding to Christian +‎ -dom.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɹɪsn̩dəm/ X-SAMPA: /"krIsn=d@m/

Noun

Christendom (countable and uncountable; plural Christendoms)

1. (obsolete) The state of being a Christian. [9th-17th c.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:

     And also Sir Palomydes avowed never to take full Crystyndom untyll that he had done seven batayles within lystys.

2. The Christian world. [from 14th c.]
   • Milton

     The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.

   • Coleridge

     A wide and still widening Christendom.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 503:

     Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.

3. (obsolete) The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
   • Shakespeare

     Pretty, fond, adoptious Christendoms.

Related terms

• Christ
• Christianity

Translations

the Christian world

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基督教 (cmn) (Jīdūjiào), 基督教世界 (Jīdūjiào shìjiè)

• Dutch: christenheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: (collective noun) kristanaro (eo), kristanujo (eo)
• Finnish: kristikunta (fi)
• French: chrétienté (fr) f
• German: Christenheit (de) f, Christentum (de) n, Christenwelt (de) f
• Greek: Χριστιανοσύνη (el) (Khristianosýnē) 
• Italian: cristianità (it) f
• Korean:

  Hangul: 기독교계

  Romaja: gidokgyogye

• Macedonian: христијанство (mk) (hristijánstvo) n
• Romanian: creștinătate (ro) f
• Russian: христианство (ru) (xristiánstvo) n 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хришћанство (sh) n, кршћанство (sh) n

  Roman: hrišćanstvo (sh) n, kršćanstvo (sh) n

• Spanish: cristiandad (es) f
• Turkish: Hıristiyanlık (tr)
• Volapük: (collective noun) kritanef (vo), kritanefavol (vo), kritavol (vo), vol kritik (vo), kritanavol (vo), vol kritanik (vo)