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Definition: Christendom |
ChristendomNoun1. The collective body of Christians throughout the world and history; "for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Christendom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Literature | Christendom [Kris'-en-dum ] generally means all Christian countries; but Shakespeare uses it for baptism, or "Christian citizenship." Thus, in King John, the young prince says:- "By my christendom! So I were out of prison and kept sheep, I should be merry as the day is long." Act iv sc. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The seeds of Christendom were laid in 306 A.D., when Emperor Constantine became co-ruler of the Roman Empire. In 312 he converted to Christianity, and in 325 Christianity became the official religion of the Empire.
Christendom was given a firmer meaning with the creation of Charlemagne's kingdom, the Christian Empire of the West. On Christmas Day, 800 A.D., Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope as ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, a title which would exist up until Napoleon's defeat of Francis II in 1806.
After the collapse of Charlemagne's empire, Christendom became a collection of states loosely connected to the Holy See. Tensions between the popes and secular rulers ran high, as the pontiffs attempted to retain control over their temporal counterparts. The idea of Christendom was already greatly discredited by the time of the Rennaissance Popes because of the moral laxity of the pontiffs and their willingness to make war, peace, and alliances like secular rulers.
Christendom as a cohesive political unit effectively ended with the Reformation.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Christendom."
Synonym: ChristendomSynonym: Christianity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Churchdom | Noun: church, churchdom; ministry, apostleship, priesthood, prelacy, hierarch, church government, christendom, pale of the church. |
Orthodoxy | The Church; Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established Church; temple of the Holy Ghost; Church of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ; Christian, Christian community; true believer; canonist; (theologian); Christendom, collective body of Christians. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Christendom |
| English words defined with "Christendom": Christianism ♦ Emergent year ♦ Greek Church ♦ Protestantism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Christendom": Fool in his Sleeve ♦ Kalyb ♦ Lamps ♦ Marian'a ♦ Nursery Tales ♦ Ormandine, Osmand ♦ Pilate's Wife, Predestination ♦ Rosana ♦ Science Persecuted, Scobellum, Seven Champions of Christendom. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Christendom" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (Christianity), Dutch (Christianity). |
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Screenplays | As any mule in Christendom -- but if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) | |
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Henri IV and France | The wisest fool in Christendom. |
Martin Luther | An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He had done well to leave her to flirt with her priest, to toy with a church which was the scullerymaid of christendom. |
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Economic History | Ethiopia | Missionaries from Egypt and Syria introduced Christianity in the fourth century A.D. Following the rise of Islam in the seventh century, Ethiopia was gradually cut off from European Christendom. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared. |
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| "Christendom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Christendom" is used about 166 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 166 | 24,220 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
christendom | 47 |
christendom college | 37 |
christendom escape from | 3 |
christendom creed | 2 |
awake christendom | 2 |
christendom european | 2 |
christendom dood | 2 |
christendom press | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Christendom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | botë krishtere. (various references) | |
Arabic | النصرانية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | християните (church, the faithful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 基督教 (Christianity). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسیحیت (Christianity), عالم مسیحیت , جامعه مسیحیت . (various references) | |
Finnish | kristikunta. (various references) | |
French | chrétienté. (various references) | |
German | christenheit (christianity). (various references) | |
Greek | χριστιανοσύνη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kereszténység (christianity, cross). (various references) | |
Italian | cristianit (christianity). (various references) | |
Manx | Yn Chreestiaght (Holy communion, Holy sacrament), Seihll Creestee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | istendomchray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cristandade (christianity). (various references) | |
Romanian | creştinãtate (christianity). (various references) | |
Russian | христианский мир. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hrišćanstvo (christianity). (various references) | |
Spanish | cristiandad. (various references) | |
Swedish | kristenhet. (various references) | |
Turkish | hristiyanlık dünyası, hristiyan alemi (the church). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | християнські країни, християнський світ, християни (christianity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | những người theo đạo Cơ-đốc, dân theo đạo Cơ-đốc nước theo đạo Cơ-đốc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Christendom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chisledon, Christendome, Christendon, Christentums, Crittenden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Christendom" (pronounced 'Chris"ten*dom'): Anglo-Saxondom, Archdukedom, Bachelordom, Birthdom, Bishopdom, Boredom, Churchdom, Cockneydom, Cuckoldom, Flunkydom, Freedom, kingdom, Marquisdom, martyrdom, Masterdom, Mormondom, Pagandom, Patriarchdom, Peerdom, Polypidom, Popedom, Princedom, Puzzledom, Queendom, Rascaldom, Rebeldom, Rhabdom, Sachemdom, Saintdom, Scoundreldom, seldom, subkingdom, Swelldom, thraldom, Underkingdom, Unseldom, Unwisdom, Uppertendom, Usherdom, Whoredom, Wisdom. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: chondrites. | |
-2 letters: centroids, chondrite, chromides, chromites, crimsoned, doctrines, horsemint, intercoms, modernist, thermions, threnodic, trichomes. | |
-3 letters: centimos, centrism, centroid, chorines, chrismon, christen, chromide, chromite, citherns, cithrens, cointers, consider, cordites, corniest, demonist, demotics, ditchers, doctrine, domestic, dormient, ethmoids, hedonics, hedonism, hedonist, heirdoms, hindmost, hordeins, horniest, incomers, intercom, isotherm, methodic, monished, mordents, morticed, mortices, mortised, notchers. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-i-m-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+3 letters: thermodynamics. | |
+4 letters: echinodermatous, trichomonacides. | |
+5 letters: thermodynamicist. | |
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