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CHRISTENDOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia)
Example:
for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom
Synonyms:
Christendom; Christianity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Christendom" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Meronyms (parts of "Christendom"):
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)
Derivation:
Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)
Context examples:
From Providence to Burgundy we are beset by every prowling hireling in Christendom, who rend and tear the country which you have left too weak to guard her own marches.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I do not think, said Sir Nigel, as he stood by Alleyne's side looking after the French knight and his lady, that in all Christendom you will meet with a more stout-hearted man or a fairer and sweeter dame.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Strange it was to these gallant and sparkling cavaliers of Spain to look upon this handful of men upon the hill, the thin lines of bowmen, the knots of knights and men-at-arms with armor rusted and discolored from long service, and to learn that these were indeed the soldiers whose fame and prowess had been the camp-fire talk of every army in Christendom.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They rode in silence, each with his treasure in his hand, glancing at it from time to time, and scarce able to believe that chance had made them sole owners of relics of such holiness and worth that every abbey and church in Christendom would have bid eagerly for their possession.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is my custom, dearling, and hath been since I have first known thee, to proclaim by herald in such camps, townships, or fortalices as I may chance to visit, that my lady-love, being beyond compare the fairest and sweetest in Christendom, I should deem it great honor and kindly condescension if any cavalier would run three courses against me with sharpened lances, should he chance to have a lady whose claim he was willing to advance.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is one, Francois Villet, at Cahors, who will send me wine-casks for my cloth-bales, so to Cahors I will go, though all the robber-knights of Christendom were to line the roads like yonder poplars.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He would then come upon that part of France which is still in dispute, and he might hope to reach the famous city of Avignon, where dwells our blessed father, the prop of Christendom.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
