Christendom
['krisəndəm]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
編輯:卢克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.
(n.) The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation.
(n.) That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands.
(n.) The whole body of Christians.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Against the unifying effort of Christendom and against the unifying influence of the mechanical revolution, catastrophe won. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Upon no part of Europe did the collapse of the idea of a unified Christendom bring more disastrous consequences than to Germany. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In its history from the first, and in its tremendous associations, it is the most illustrious edifice in Christendom. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Now the whole of Christendom became as a whole sceptical. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Only very slowly and weakly did Christianity restore that lost sense of community and teach men to rally about the idea of Christendom. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There was a real sustained attempt to unite all Christendom under a purified and reorganized church. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- After the church of Rome, that of England is by far the richest and best endowed church in Christendom. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Ursula was amazed and indignant at the way he made small-talk; he was adept as any FAT in Christendom. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Now in all ages there have been sceptics in Christendom. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It might be that Joe, who fought on the side of Christendom, had a sweetheart, and that Jim, who fought on the side of the Moslem, had one likewise. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The manufacture entered Christendom either through Greece or by the capture of Moorish paper-mills during the Christian reconquest of Spain. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This Jehad excited almost as much feeling in Islam as the First Crusade had done in Christendom. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Such was the political condition of the world in which the idea of Christendom developed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Their schools became and remained for a long time the best schools in Christendom. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
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