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Definition of Baptism

1. Noun. A Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth. "Most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism"

Definition of Baptism

1. n. The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

Definition of Baptism

1. Noun. The Bible Baptist Christian personal ordinance in which one is submerged in water. ¹

2. Noun. The Christian sacrament in which one is anointed with or submerged in water and sometimes given a name. ¹

3. Noun. A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Baptism

1. a Christian ceremony [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Baptism

Literary usage of Baptism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The safe guide in this confusion is the axiom: a doubtful baptism, ... This rule, so different from that governing baptism as a necessary means for ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"The sacrament of baptism 67 was regularly administered by the bishop ... The discretion of parents often suspended the baptism of their children till they ..."

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