Christianity
nameEtymology
From Middle English Cristiente, Cristente, borrowed from Old French crestienté, from Medieval Latin stem of Chrīstiānitās, from Latin christianus, Christianus, from Ancient Greek Χριστιανός (Khristianós), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ, anointed one”) + Latin -anus (“suffix for of, related to”) + one more suffix borrowed from Latin "ity" makes the final Christian + -ity. The term was respelled in the early modern English period to more closely reflect its Latin etymon.
- derived from Χριστιανός
- derived from christianus
- derived from crestienté
- inherited from Cristiente
Definitions
An Abrahamic religion originating from the community of the followers of Jesus Christ.
- As a result, Christianity developed as a separate religion from Judaism.
Protestantism (in contrast to Catholicism)
Christendom, the Christian world
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Obsolete form of Christianity.
- I must tell you that christianity hath new christened it
- That wealth and splendour have not the charms that you ascribe to them with the bulk of mankind, is evident even from the history of Monachism, one of the corruptions of christianity.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at Christianity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at christianity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at christianity
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA