Noun

(en-noun)

An Abrahamic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and various scholars who wrote the Christian Bible.

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* 2002 , The Atlas of Great Jewish Communities: A Voyage Through History , page 27:

As a result, Christianity developed as a separate religion from Judaism.

Christendom

Noun

The Christian world.

*Milton

*:The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom .

*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.

(obsolete) The state of being a Christian.

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(obsolete) The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.

*Shakespeare

*:Pretty, fond, adoptious Christendoms .