Christian
relating to or characteristic of Christianity
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,216 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 14,997 times across 191,625 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- relating to or characteristic of Christianity Christian rites
- following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ
noun
- a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination
Christian in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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At the sound of her new name Christian started, and she, too, turned scarlet.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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Frithiof’s Farewell The Children of the Lord’s Supper King Christian The Elected Knight Childhood From the German.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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A pox on 't, as I am a Christian! tell me to-morrow how scurvily she takes my unkind parting.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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Yet the work of Reconstruction, if admitted to be feasible at all, demands little but common sense and Christian charity.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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And oft Pastorius and the meek old man Argued as Quaker and as Lutheran, Ending in Christian love, as they began.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1