单词 | christianness |
释义 | Christiannessn. The fact or condition of being a Christian; Christian quality or character. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > condition ChristendomOE Christianitya1400 Christiandom1549 discipleship1612 Christianimity1637 Christianness1645 1645 H. Hammond Of Conscience 7 To judge the Christiannesse of an action, by the law of naturall reason. 1675 Αλληλοκρισια vii. 184 Thou really dost procure and confirm in thy self this Generosity, and Manliness, and Christianness (for nothing more commended in Christian Religion) of Temper. 1800 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 577 How I did think of your Sunday Suppers—their light uncumbrous Simplicity, the heartiness of manner, the literary Christianness of Conversation. 1882 Proc. Œcumenical Methodist Conf. 1881 276 We can afford to..recognise the Christianness of men who believe what they can believe, and stand in doubt of what they cannot believe. 1967 P. M. Edwards Inquiring Faith vii. 72 The college's Christianness is not measured by the number of students who attend church. 2009 T. Sizgorich Violence & Belief in Late Antiq. iv. 131 It was frequently the role of Christian monks to demonstrate precisely where the boundaries of true Christianness were. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1645 |
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