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Related topics: Christianity
baptismbap‧tis‧m /ˈbæptɪzəm/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable] 1 RRCa Christian religious ceremony in which someone is touched or covered with water to welcome them into the Christian faith, and sometimes to officially name them → christening2 → baptism of/by fire —baptismal /bæpˈtɪzməl/ adjective [only before noun] a baptismal font (=container for holding the water used at baptism)
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baptism• According to Catholic Church statistics, there were about 25,000 baptisms in Havana in 1989.• It is almost impossible to see where events will lead but you are going through a baptism of fire.• He remembered hymns and baptisms down on this lake; religious conversion and arms reaching up in real belief.• He prepares couples for marriage, and children for baptism and communion.• The last three groups were a type of radical Protestant sometimes called Anabaptist, because they did not believe in infant baptism.• For a first Mass it had certainly been a tough baptism.
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