Christianity
Americannoun
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the Christian religion, including the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches.
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Christian beliefs or practices; Christian quality or character.
Christianity mixed with pagan elements; the Christianity of Augustine's thought.
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a particular Christian religious system.
She followed fundamentalist Christianity.
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the state of being a Christian.
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conformity to the Christian religion or to its beliefs or practices.
noun
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the Christian religion
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Christian beliefs, practices or attitudes
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a less common word for Christendom
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Etymology
Origin of Christianity
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English cristianite, from Latin chrīstiānitāt-, stem of chrīstiānitās; equivalent to Christian + -ity; replacing Middle English cristiente, from Middle French, from Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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Since owners worried that literacy would encourage slaves to seek freedom, missionaries found themselves limited in what form of Christianity they could present to enslaved people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
The concept of a Christian “holy war”—a war conferring spiritual benefits—originates in medieval Latin Christianity, with its crusader theology of bellum sacrum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
The first half of Communion, on Vance’s journey from evangelical Christianity to atheism to Catholicism, takes the reader through his disillusionment with the conservative evangelical churches of his youth.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026
The book recounts Vance's conversion to Catholicism, a long road from the vaguely defined Christianity of his beloved, gunpacking grandmother who cared for him for most of his childhood.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
Choose your question wisely, and then examine how Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity attempt to answer it.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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