Christendom : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Christendom	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Christendom n 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" Synonym(s): Christendom, Christianity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Christendom \Chris"ten*dom\, n. [AS. cristend[?]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. 2. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.] Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. --Shak. 3. That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. --Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. --Coleridge. 4. The whole body of Christians. --Hooker.