Christhood
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Christhood
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at Christ, -hood
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The Christhood means not the body of Jesus but the perfection of divine virtues manifest in Him.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
Tell me, thou Planter of Christhood and Islam; tell me, thou seed-bearing Israel!
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus
We think of the Christhood of Jesus, of the Christliness of such love as this.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
Epiphanius says this was a heathen rite, but it rather resembles some Basilidian or Gnostic commemoration of the spiritual birth of the Divine life in Jesus of the Christhood, from the older creation the Ecclesia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
His Christhood was thought of as something in the future, not yet realized.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
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