rare. [f. JEW sb. + -DOM, after Christendom.] The Jewish world or community; the religious system of the Jews.
1849. Stockport Advertiser, 13 July, 2/3. The Conservatives looked upon the question rather as one that had already been decided in Jewdom, than as one which they expected to influence.
1869. Baring-Gould, Orig. Relig. Belief (1878), I. x. 202. The existence of the Jews as a nation was annihilated, but Jewdom survives to this day.
1881. Emerson, in Scribner’s Mag., XXII. 89/1. Coupled … with the utmost impatience of Christendom and Jewdom and all existing presentments of the good old story.
1891. Field, 14 Feb., 241/2. On the glass … are nine figures for Jewdom, Henthendom, and Christendom, three … heroes for each.
