Christendom Definition & Meaning

christendom
noun
  1. 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"

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  • "the wisest fool in christendom"
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