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. Book of Common Prayer:

   We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water. Over it the Holy Spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you led the children of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt into the land of promise. In it your Son Jesus received the baptism of John and we are buried with Christ in his death. By it we share in his resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy Spirit.

2. 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.

3. Arthur Rimbaud:

   I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

4. Hal Klepak:

   It's his baptism of fire and it's also his 21st birthday, he literally comes of age and in all these dozens of senses he comes of age as well.

5. 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.