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Christendom

[ kris-uhn-duhm ]

noun

  1. Christians Christian collectively.
  2. the Christian world.


Christendom

/ ˈɪəԻə /

noun

  1. the collective body of Christians throughout the world or throughout history
  2. an obsolete word for Christianity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of Christendom1

before 900; Middle English; Old English ٱԻō. See Christian, -dom
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“This is a movement about reorganizing Christendom under their dominance.”

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Orbán has depicted himself as a defender of European Christendom against Muslim migrants, progressives and the “LGBTQ lobby,” and has faced backlash after comments that he opposes Europe becoming a “ mixed-race society.”

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They are forever standing on the battlements of Christendom or Western Civilization, resisting nobly but perhaps futilely the onslaught of barbarians, heretics and secular humanists.

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He has depicted himself as a defender of European Christendom against Muslim migrants, progressives and the “LGBTQ lobby.”

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In his homily, read before about 8,000 people in Christendom's largest church, Francis spoke of the bitterness, dismay and disillusionment many feel today.

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