What's the difference between christening and godmother?

Christening


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Christen

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Following the service, guests will attend a private tea at Clarence House, hosted by Prince Charles , where guests will be served christening cake.
  • (2) The present data emphasize the applicability of certain oxidants as trapping agents for enzymatic carbanion intermediates as proposed previously (Healy, M.J.,, and Christen, P. (1973) Biochemistry 12, 35-41).
  • (3) In July, a religious procession was organised by the Ukrainian Orthodox church to commemorate the anniversary of the christening of Kievan Rus’ , while calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine .
  • (4) It would swirl around that child's head in the manner of a bad fairy from a storybook bringing along a cursed gift to a christening.
  • (5) And with people like Douglas, Martin, Nathan, I'd go to their weddings, their children's christenings, birthday parties, and still do."
  • (6) Alan Clarke, at BNP Paribas, christened the new government "the odd couple".
  • (7) • George wore a reproduction of a christening gown worn by royal babies since 1841.
  • (8) However, its accumulation is limited by degradation with a half-life of only approximately 5 min (Jaussi, R., Sonderegger, P., Flückiger, J., and Christen, P. (1982) J. Biol.
  • (9) No doubt the archbishop of Canterbury will give Prince George a typically discreet Anglican sprinkling of water during his christening at St James's Palaceon Wednesday.
  • (10) In the first few pages he writes about his earliest memory, aged four, standing on a chair at his younger sister's christening, pulling faces while people laughed.
  • (11) The decrease in flagellar beat frequencies and sperm velocities are much greater than what could be extrapolated from the decrease of intracellular ATP (Christen R. et al: Eur.
  • (12) The duchess appears to be constantly dressed for a christening.
  • (13) He was reported to have been in jovial form following the christening of his granddaughter at Staghall Church near Belturbet, Co Cavan on Boxing Day before returning to Mountjoy.
  • (14) Since 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (3HAA), an oxidation product of tryptophan metabolism, is a powerful radical scavenger [Christen, S., Peterhans, E., & Stocker, R. (1990) Proc.
  • (15) When he was born on 5 December 1971, the politician was christened Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Sylvester Joseph von und zu Guttenberg.
  • (16) George will be christened in a replica of the intricate lace and satin christening gown made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria, the princess royal, in 1841.
  • (17) The O’Neill-Keane combination was immediately christened the dream team when they took over from Giovanni Trapattoni in 2013 but after showing some promise in early friendlies performances have slumped.
  • (18) The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London at Prince George's christening.
  • (19) He had two names: christened Lee Alexander McQueen , he used Alexander when he started his label to avoid jeopardising his unemployment benefit.
  • (20) And once you've bought, you're not allowed to exhale with relief as you christen the hatstand and pour your inaugural brandy.

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.

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