Christendom – English noun declension

English noun forms of Christendom

Noun: Christendom
SingularChristendom
PluralChristendoms

Sample Sentences

  • The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. [1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:]
  • The result is contained in the fact of a wide and still widening Christendom. [1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion”, in Aids to Reflection, page 184:]
  • Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England. [2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 503:]
  • By my Chriſtendome, So I were out of priſon, and kept Sheepe, I ſhould be as merry as the day is long. [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 11, column 2:]
  • […]and yet cannot be denied that ſo it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Chriſtendome ſuſpected. [1643, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Sacred Order and Offices of Epiſcopacy […] , R. Royſton, page 101:]
  • Especially about law and its obligatory force was Cromwell's head clear, making clearer distinctions than Wolsey with his conscience or More with his Christendom. [2015 March 12 [1934], Kenneth Pickthorn, Early Tudor Government, volume 2, Cambridge University Press, page 137:]
  • […]but for an Author to renounce his Chriſtendome to write in his owne commendation, to refuſe the name which his Godfathers and Godmothers gaue him in his baptiſme , and call himſelfe a wellwiller to both the writers[…] [1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC:]
  • His faith, his ſweet diſaſter: with a world
  • Of pretty fond adoptious chriſtendomes
  • That blinking Cupid goſſips. [c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 231, column 2:]

Etymology

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

Verbs referencing "Christendom"

Danish Nouns kristendom.