christian – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of christian

Adjective: christian

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore christian
Superlativemost christian

Sample Sentences

  • When I employ myſelf upon a paper of morality, I generally conſider how I may recommend the particular virtue which I treat of, by the precepts or examples of the ancient heathens; by that means, if poſſible, to ſhame thoſe who have greater advantages of knowing their duty, and therefore greater obligations to perform it, into a better courſe of life: beſides that many among us are unreaſonably diſpoſed to give a fairer hearing to a pagan philoſopher, than to a chriſtian writer. [1711 November 3, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, “The Spectator”, in Saturday, volume 3, number 213:]
  • She said, that sculpture was a pagan art, and painting a christian one; […] [1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book VIII. The Statues and the Pictures.] Chap[ter] III.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume II, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 205:]
  • Now, we have no particular objection to this Santa Claus business, but will say what we have said before, that it is entirely overdone and a long ways from being proper in the so-called “christian America.” [1912 December 20, “Lone Pine”, in Banner County News, volume XX, number 51, Harrisburg, Neb.: Banner County News Publishing Co, →OCLC, page [8], column 4:]
  • The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. [1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 3:]
  • Of all christian ‘ritual patterns’ that of the eucharist is by common consent central and most important. [1945, Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy, page ix:]
  • The emergence of basic christian communities as a new radical model of church is closely linked with Latin American Liberation Theology. [1985, Helen Ralston, “Models of ‘Church’: A Cross-cultural Perspective”, in Journal of Comparative Sociology and Religion, number 12, page 22:]
  • For them liturgy as religion in action with its central role in defining local christian communities, has proved a useful tool for enriching understanding of religious culture in pre-­industrial society. [1995, Simon Ditchfield, Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular, →ISBN, page 21:]

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