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noun

Christendom n.

The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. (Obs.)

The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. (Obs.) "Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms."

That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Muslim lands. "The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom." "A wide and still widening Christendom."

The whole body of Christians.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... steadily and seriously at some of the sores which were festering in its body, and undermining health and life. And so the tide had turned, and England had already passed the critical point; when 1848 came upon Christendom, and the whole of Europe leapt up into a wild blaze ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... recovered, and returned to his blasphemy and his tyranny. In vain Anselm warned him against his sins. A fresh object of dispute soon arose between the king and the new archbishop. Two Popes claimed the obedience of Christendom. Urban II. was the Pope acknowledged by the greater part of the Church. Clement III. was the Pope supported by the Emperor. Anselm declared that Urban was the true Pope, and that he would obey none other. William asserted that his father ...

— A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) - From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII • Samuel Rawson Gardiner

... Secessionists are now situated as most peoples used to be, before good roads became common. The South is becoming reduced to that state which was known to some parts of England before that country had made for itself the best roads of Christendom, and when there would be starvation in one parish, while perhaps in the next the fruits of the earth were rotting on its surface, because there were no means of getting them to market. With a currency so ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various

... prerogative was set aside. Matters which had even in the days of their greatest influence been scrupulously withheld from the cognizance of the Houses were now absolutely forced on their attention. It was by Parliament that England was torn from the great body of Western Christendom. It was by parliamentary enactment that the English Church was reft of its older liberties and made absolutely subservient to the Crown. It was a parliamentary statute that defined the very faith and religion of the land. The vastest confiscation of landed property ...

— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green

... compassionately: 'O fool! and slow to believe and serve thy God.... He gave thee the keys of those barriers of the ocean sea which were closed with such mighty chains, and thou wast obeyed through many lands, and hast gained an honourable fame throughout Christendom.' In a letter to the King and Queen of ...

— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese

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