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Definition of Sponsion
1. n. The act of becoming surety for another.
Definition of Sponsion
1. the act of sponsoring [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sponsion
Literary usage of Sponsion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Baptism by Robert Robinson (1817)
"... private baptism, the sign of the cross, and sponsion: but they retain the
baptism of infants, and direct the clergy to administer it, by pouring water ..."
2. The History of Baptism by Robert Robinson, David Benedict (1817)
"... disuse salt, oil, spittle, exorcism, private baptism, the sign of the cross,
and sponsion: but they retain the baptism of infants, and direct the clergy ..."
3. The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical by Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland (1840)
"It is evident, therefore, that sponsion is not required by the church in order to
... sponsion is dispensed with when there is no probability of the child ..."
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