noun
archaic, historicalA fellow Christian; one's fellow Christian.
Origin
Middle English; earliest use found in Honorius Augustodunensis' Elucidarium. Cognate with, or formed similarly to, Old Frisian ivinkerstena, Middle Dutch ēvenkerstijn, Middle Low German ēvenkristen, Old High German ebanchristāni (Middle High German ebenkristen) from the Germanic base of even + the Germanic base of christen.
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