Xtian.
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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Popular Kenyan blogger Xtian Dela was one of the first to use the phrase, imploring his 228,000 Twitter followers to get it trending in the aftermath of the Mpeketoni attacks.
From BBC
Here are Dering, Wimond, Dereman, De la Hell, Wrotham, Cuckeston, Pevington, Pirefield, Cheriton, Ash, and de Fraxino, whereof the first three are assumed from forenames or Xtian names, as have done the families of Herding, Herbert, Aucher, Bagot, Bardolph, Hasting, Durand, Hubert, Oughtred, Leonard, and very many more; all the others here were assumed by reason of lands possessed of that name.
From Project Gutenberg
I give to a poor Xtian woman in Dartmouth, Mrs. Adams, 10l.
From Project Gutenberg
Sampson Meverill, Knight Constable of England, also lies buried in the chancel, and by his epitaph on a marble tomb, brought curiously enough from Sussex, he asks the reader "devoutly of your charity" to say "a Pater Noster with an Ave for all Xtian soules, and especially for the soule of him whose bones resten under this stone."
From Project Gutenberg
"Are you a Xtian?"—referring to the sentiments of Wanderer and the Pastor—two characters of The Excursion.
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