(v. i.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was, in a critical sense, our nation’s baptism of fire – and 8,000 Australians didn’t come back.” Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sought to underline the theme of reconciliation: “The sons of nations who fought each other on opposing sides 100 years ago will gather under the same roof to convey the message of peace and brotherhood to the world,” he said.
(2) Data from the baptismal records of the Parochial Church of Humahuaca from 1734 to 1810 were grouped into two periods, 1734-72 and 1773-1810.
(3) Nearly all of the world’s religions involve some sort of ritual cleansing by submerging oneself or parts of the body in water, from mikveh to baptism to ablutions.
(4) At the Television Critics Association winter press tour in California last week, Evans admitted rebuilding the show, which makes about £150m a year for the corporation, has been a “baptism of fire”.
(5) In a bid to increase its resources, the almoner’s office last month reasserted the Vatican’s monopoly on the production of papal blessings on parchment, which some Catholics buy to mark special occasions such as baptisms and marriages.
(6) Congregations increase during his time and bereavement and baptism teams are launched.
(7) But after the photo person took my picture, he sent me to another woman, and I handed her the form and my stack of papers, and she just threw my baptism certificate back at me and said it wasn’t valid and I couldn’t get an ID.
(8) A bishop in Sicily has banned known mafia criminals from acting as godfathers at baptisms in churches in his diocese.
(9) It is time to stop calling each other names, time to shun the idea that we should define ourselves by our differences and instead define ourselves by what we hold in common – our baptism into Christ, our dependence on God’s grace, our will to serve the poor and so on.” Co-ordinator of the principal clerk’s office, Very Rev David Arnott, said: “The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland decided today to allow individual kirk sessions the possibility of allowing a nominating committee to consider an application from a minister living in a civil partnership.
(10) In particular, Afghanistan's elite counter-terror teams have come through a baptism of fire after dealing with a series of ever more dangerous and complicated attacks on Kabul in the last year.
(11) For me it’s quite easy to connect because I know where he’s going to be, we’ve got a great understanding and I’m sure it’s only going to get stronger.” A veteran of 33 Merseyside derbies, it was apt that Gerrard’s MLS baptism came in a derby match – albeit between two teams separated by a five-hour drive rather than a five-minute walk.
(12) "It was some baptism of fire, for his first year in charge of a publicly-listed company and his first exposure to the newspaper industry," says a second City source.
(13) Built in traditional stone, it is a popular venue for traditional Greek festivals (including baptisms that take full advantage of the lapping waves on the beach below).
(14) Among the 266 holders of the papacy to date, the current incumbent is the first to take Francis, a flash of re-baptismal originality in a line of succession in which the Johns reach 23, there have been a dozen men called Pius and 13 took the name Innocent.
(15) More evidence is presented: a questionable letter from a grateful patient; Hickman's stewardship at a Charity Ball; the baptism of his children at Shifnal.
(16) I thought that was normal, because I’d never done anything important.” Debicki looks back on her experience of working on her first major studio project as “baptism by fire”.
(17) The move would allow for baptisms and burials, Kaczyński said.
(18) Although they share certain beliefs, such as adult baptism and the separation of church and state, each group is culturally unique.
(19) IMPs computed from baptism closely resembled those for U.S. non-whites after 1950.
(20) The demographic reconstruction is based upon baptismal and marriage records, the administration of demographic proformae and population censuses.
Godmother
Definition:
(n.) A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather
Example Sentences:
(1) Firstly, the intervention and example of the archetypal celebrity fairy godmother, Oprah Winfrey.
(2) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
(3) We value diversity, self-expression and experimentation above all else.” “The liberation of LGBTQ+ people is wired into the original components of electronic music culture and personally embodied in the deep, lifelong friendship between our godmother (and trans icon), Wendy Carlos and our godfather, Bob Moog,” Black Madonna said.
(4) Heywood and Gu were once so close that she was godmother to one of his children.
(5) It was like DIY SOS; or as Sally says, a scene from a Disney movie with me being her fairy godmother.
(6) Undoubtedly, her relationship to Tupac– she was his step-aunt and godmother – has played a role.
(7) ■ The Watergate tapes popularised the phrase "expletive deleted" and Richard Nixon is depicted using the F-word eight times in one scene alone of Oliver Stone's Nixon , and often the CS-word (which is most effectively overdubbed, for family viewing, with "fairy godmother").
(8) She is still reliant on a fairy godmother ( Helena Bonham Carter ) to help wrest her from this servile purgatory, and her life ambitions still seem to include marrying a prince and wearing a very nice dress.
(9) I've just become a godmother and it's the first time I'd actually been into a mother and baby unit and seen a newborn, and it's pretty emotional, isn't it?
(10) His political hero, whom he met as a small boy, was David Lloyd George, the last Liberal prime minister, whose daughter, Megan, was his godmother.
(11) Other groups currently have to do cleanup on the bad design of their platforms, and the marketplace will walk if those solutions are not in place.” “Sexual harassment in the workplace was the issue that radicalised my godmother, and this is connected,” says Wilson.
(12) Once your children are up and skiing, there are themed areas on the mountain that add a touch of magic and story telling, such as the Piste of the Wicked Fairy Godmother in Courchevel Moriond, and the Indians Piste, where children go in search of the Grey Wolf and the Chief of the Indian tribe.
(13) Haryssa's godmother had doted on her, according to a neighbour, Bellefleur Jean Heber.
(14) Prince Charles, Sir James Goldsmith and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild were among his intimates; Diana, Princess of Wales, was godmother to his youngest son.
(15) More to the point, where is the female Judd Apatow, playing godmother to a new wave of funny ladies in femme-oriented comedies that allow their characters to live lives beyond Prada?
(16) What can we learn from the story of Zac and Sarah, the ragged orphans upon whom the benevolent fairy godmother of the DWP bestowed their enchanted kindness?
(17) "There are no police, no anybody," said Haryssa's despairing godmother, Kettely Clerge.
(18) At this point no one would be that surprised if Kensington Palace put out an easel declaring that she is going to be Prince George's godmother.
(19) Once his parents introduced him to amazing music; now he takes them out to his DJ sets, his mother and godmother joining him in the booth at Trouw in Amsterdam till 7.30am.
(20) He says he left mates behind and there’s a moment when he’s looking back on his career and talking about his best friends in football – “Álvaro Arbeloa: I’ve known him since I was 17, his wife’s godmother to my children and he helped me grow up, telling me to start behaving like an adult and a professional” – about how what matters most at any club is the dressing room.