Christendom

See also: christendom

English

Etymology

From Middle English cristendom, cristendome, from Old English crīstendōm, equivalent to Christen +‎ -dom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪsn̩dəm/

Noun

Christendom (countable and uncountable, plural Christendoms)

1. The Christian world. [from 14^thc.]
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.

   • (Can we date this quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.

2. (obsolete) The state of being a Christian. [9^th-17^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
     :

     And also sire Palomydes auowed neuer to take ful crystendome vnto the tyme that he had done seuen batails within the lystys

3. (obsolete) The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
   • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Pretty, fond, adoptious Christendoms.

Related terms

• Christ
• Christianity

Translations

the Christian world

• Aromanian: crishtinãtati f, crishtinami f
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: kristenhed c, kristne verden c
• Dutch: christenheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: (collective noun) kristanaro, kristanujo
• Finnish: kristikunta (fi)
• French: chrétienté (fr) f
• Friulian: cristianitât f
• Galician: cristiandade (gl) f
• German: Christenheit (de) f, Christentum (de) n, Christenwelt f
• Greek: χριστιανοσύνη (el) f (christianosýni)
• Hungarian: kereszténység (hu)
• Irish: An Chríostaíocht f, An Domhan Críostaí m
• Italian: cristianità f
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• Korean: 기독교계 (gidokgyogye)
• Macedonian: христија́нство n (hristijánstvo)
• Portuguese: cristandade (pt) f
• Romanian: creștinătate (ro) f
• Russian: христиа́нство (ru) n (xristiánstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хришћанство n, кршћанство n

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

• Spanish: cristiandad f
• Swedish: kristenhet c
• Tagalog: sangkakristiyanuhan
• Turkish: Hıristiyanlık (tr)
• Urdu: عالم مسیحیت (ur) f ('ālam-i-masihiyat)
• Volapük: (collective noun) kritanef (vo), kritanefavol, kritavol, vol kritik, kritanavol, vol kritanik