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Christendom

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Chris·ten·dom  (krsn-dm)
n.
1. Christians considered as a group.
2. The Christian world.

[Middle English Cristendom, from Old English cristendm : cristen, Christian; see Christian + -dm, -dom.]

Christendom
Noun
all Christian people or countries

Christendom
Christians collectively or the Christian world.
See also: Christianity
Christendom Christians collectively, 1131; A particular body or community of Christians, 1205.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Christendom - 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"
body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body"
Christian church, church - one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
church - the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church; "our church is hosting a picnic next week"

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When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
There's not a magazine in Christendom that would dare to publish it - you know that.
Then the Cross, which for a thousand years and more had stood upon the ramparts of Christendom, went down before the Crescent.
 
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