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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Christendom \Chris"ten*dom\, noun [AS. cristend[=o]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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Christendom
noun: 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" [syn: {Christianity}]
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