Synonyms for baptism
ˈbæp tɪz əmbap·tism

Princeton's WordNet

1. baptismnoun

   a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth

   "most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism"

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1. • Sacrament

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1. baptismnoun

   Synonyms:
   baptizing, parabaptism, pedobaptism, hypothetical

   Associated words:
   baptize, christen, font, baptistery, baptismal

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1. List of paraphrases for "baptism":

   christening, naming, blood

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1. Mickie Abatemarco:

   Children can explore what their call to faith is through religious education, after baptism, parents are the child’s first teacher, but CCD or enrollment in Catholic school continues that in such a meaningful way.

2. Charles de LEUSSE:

   Love is tears of joy, It’s the baptism of fingers. (L'amour, c'est larme de joie, C'est le baptême des doigts)

3. Richard Olton:

   When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.

4. E. M. Forster:

   A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

5. Francis Cardinal George, OMI:

   In recent decades, greater appreciation of our being sisters and brothers in Christ because of our baptism has grown. This has changed the psychological and social climate of our living and praying. We are not enemies but family: a fractured family, but still family.