Christendom

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪsn̩dəm/

Christendom (countable and uncountable, plural Christendoms)

1. The Christian world. [from 14^thc.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Samuel Taylor 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.

2. (obsolete) The state of being a Christian. [9^th-17^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter 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?) William Shakespeare

     Pretty, fond, adoptious Christendoms.

• Christ
• Christianity