Associations to the word «Christendom»

Wiktionary

CHRISTENDOM, noun. The Christian world. [from 14thc.]
CHRISTENDOM, noun. (obsolete) The state of being a Christian. [9th-17thc.]
CHRISTENDOM, noun. (obsolete) The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.

Dictionary definition

CHRISTENDOM, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats