Christianとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪʃtʃən/, /ˈkɹɪstjən/, /ˈkɹɪstʃən/
• ハイフネーション: Chris‧tian

名詞

Christian (複数形 Christians)

1. A believer in Christianity.
   • 2008, Christopher Catherwood, Making War in the Name of God, Page 188

     thousands of people have been killed in recent years in violence between Muslims and Christians.

   • 1997, Anne Field, From darkness to light: how one became a Christian in the early church →ISBN
2. An individual who seeks to live his or her life according to the principles and values taught by Jesus Christ.

上位語

• religionist, theist, Abrahamist, People of the Book

下位語

• Christianess
• Christianist
• Catholic
• Orthodox Christian
• Anglican
• Protestant

等位語

• (religionists) religion, religionist; Baha'i,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ Confucianist,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Eckist,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jew,‎ Muslim,‎ pagan,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Raëlian,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ Taoist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Wiccan,‎ Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion)}

固有名詞

Christian

1. A male given name found in England since the twelfth century.
2. A female given name of medieval usage, rare today.
3. A patronymic surname​.

派生語

• Christian County

関連する語

• feminine forms: Christiana, Christina, Christine

形容詞

Christian (comparative more Christian, superlative most Christian)

1. (not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.
2. (not comparable) Of, like or relating to Jesus Christ.
3. Kind, charitable; moral; a term of approbation.

   That's very Christian of you.

   • 1824, Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance

     I cannot help thinking there are people in the world who are very tiresome, very impertinent, and very disagreeable; yet, I don't think it would be a very Christian act were I to tell them so.

   • 1854, Nathaniel James Merriman, The Kafir, the Hottentot, and the frontier farmer (page 74)

     I must say I have seen him do a very Christian act at the Fish River. Some Kafir women were there eating; he begged of them; they refused to give him any food. […] I gave him some of the victuals we were enjoying, and he instantly broke the bread, and gave of it to these very Kafir women who had just refused any of theirs.

   • 1859, David W. Belisle, The American family Robinson (page 290)

     "Besides this," said the trapper, "it is hardly a Christian act to leave these two men to perish by the hands of the savages […]

   • 1867, Henry Shepheard, Ithuriel's spear; or, Is this Christianity? (page 118)

     So, in his esteem, an auto da fé — an "act of faith," as the words mean — is really an act of faith — an act of such faith as the author of "Ecce Homo" approves — a most Christian act — a most humane act […]

   • 1867?, Janet Robertson, Christine; or, Common-Place People

     I have only been at home two days, and here I am come on the third to see you and Tiny, so it is not Christian of you — as my mother would say — to receive your dutiful grand-nephew in such an unkind manner […]

   • 1981, Mary Leader, Salem's Children, →ISBN, page 82

     "Why should I? It's very Christian of you." "People here do not think of me as a Christian, Mitti." "I'd call it Christian charity," I floundered. "You think Christians have a monopoly on charity?" she asked. "Well, no," I stammered.

   • 1995, Patrick Colm Hogan, Joyce, Milton, and the theory of influence, page 88:

     Joyce […] must have found himself likewise in accord with Dante's view that "The Goal of Mankind is Universal Peace," a view to which Dante devoted an entire section of his treatise, and a view opposed to the protestant militancy of the more muscularly Christian Milton.

   • 1996 Nov-Dec, Richard Blow, “Al Franken”, in Mother Jones Magazine‎^[1], volume 21, number 6:

     I didn't think it was very Christian of them, not to call back. Just downright Un-Christian."

   • 2009, Adriane Danette Lentz-Smith, Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I, page 209:

     Mood and hopes ran high. Onto the stage, into this mélange of black power, military symbolism, and Christian striving, walked Kathryn Johnson.

   • 2010, Linda Woodbridge, English Revenge Drama: Money, Resistance, Equality, page 268:

     Henry Irving and other Victorian actors easily created empathy for Shylock, even in a muscularly Christian period.

使用する際の注意点

• Use of the term "Christian" in the generalised approbative sense "kind, moral" may be displeasing to some non-Christians.

同意語

• (kind): charitable, helpful, kind, neighborly/neighbourly, sweet (くだけた用法)

反意語

• (of または relating to Christianity または Christians): agnostic, atheist, heathen, non-Christian, pagan
• (charitable, moral): corrupt, immoral, improper, unjust, savage

派生語

• Christian name

関連する語

• Christ
• Christianity
• Christianize
• cretin

参考

• Catholic
• fundamentalist
• Jew
• messiah
• Mormon
• Muslim
• New Testament
• Old Testament
• Protestant

アナグラム

• Christina, trichinas