Christian
[ˈkrɪstʃən]
Definition:
1. Following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ.
'Christian' example sentence:
- Christian Democratic leaders are meeting to discuss their role in shaping the future of Europe.
- The great thinker who interprets the Christian religion in terms of eros is St. Augustine.
- The Christian Democrats did marginally worse than expected.
- You will never see mistletoe in a Christian church—it is banned because of its associations with pagan religion and superstition.
- He was a devout Christian.
- The tradition, dating back to 300 B.C., was later incorporated into the Christian church.
- There's a lot of Christian churches where you can't get married in the outdoors, that's not an official way to get married.
- She had a Christian upbringing.
- At this time she decided to become a Christian and was baptised.
- The decay of Christian belief and practice is not a loss but rather an opportunity for poetry in Crane.
- Because he was a Christian, the judge let him off.
- Springs and wells were decorated, a custom which was carried over into Christian times in Europe.
- It's first of all a depiction of an underworld, and so it provides Milton with an important Christian representation of hell.
- We're all on Christian name terms here.
- The Christian church has adapted many pagan ideas over the centuries.
- I was saved, to use a Christian term, by articulations and representations of faith heroes connected with social justice.
- Most people believe they conduct their private and public lives in accordance with Christian morality.
- Dorothy was described as a very straight woman, a very strict Christian who was married to her job.
- Despite my attempts to get him to call me by my Christian name he insisted on addressing me as 'Mr Kennedy'.
- Christian Slater has a new movie coming out next month in which he plays a vigilante.
- I was brought up a nominal Christian.
- He said that her remarks disgusted every practising Christian. That claim is arguable.
- Christian pushed him away, yelling abuse.
- At this time she decided to become a Christian and was baptized.
- He was the only boy in the school who was known by his Christian name and not his surname.
- As a Christian, he has to abide by Christian doctrine.
- The Christian right has been steadily gaining ground in state politics.
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.
- This time we no longer look at the text objectively. Let's look at what an early Christian church looked like.
- The Christian calendar was originally based on the Julian calendar of the Romans.
- She was a devout Christian.
- Her favourite writer is Hans Christian Andersen.
- They are part of the Christian tradition.
- He ignores the traditional Christian dualism between body and soul.
- They levied religious taxes on Christian commercial transactions.
- She was a very strict Christian who was married to her job.
- Christian Lacroix is throwing a very lavish and very select party.
- The magazine's aim is to discuss topical issues within a Christian framework.
- Most of my friends are Christian.
- Virtue is not confined to the Christian world.
- Christian holy week overlaps with the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
- Milton is also sensitive to the fact that the very phrase "Christian epic" is in some way a contradiction in terms.
- I am not a religious fanatic but I am a Christian.