• (British) IPA: /ˈkɹɪsn̩dəm/

Christendom

1. The Christian world. [from 14^thc.]
   • 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, […] , London: Printed by J.M. for James Alleſtry, […] , OCLC 78038412 ↗:

     The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.

   • 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.

2. (obsolete) The state of being a Christian. [9^th-17^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:12.63?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter lxiij], in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     And also sire Palomydes auowed neuer to take ful crystendome vnto the tyme that he had done seuen batails within the lystys

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

   • c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

     Pretty, fond, adoptious Christendoms.

• Christ
• Christianity

• French: chrétienté
• German: Christenheit, Christentum, Christenwelt
• Italian: cristianità
• Portuguese: cristandade
• Russian: христиа́нство
• Spanish: cristiandad