Usually means: Initiation ritual using water, Christianity.
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  1. baptism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. baptism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. baptism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. baptism: Vocabulary.com
  5. Baptism, baptism: Wordnik
  6. baptism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. baptism: Wiktionary
  8. baptism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. baptism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. baptism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. baptism: Dictionary.com
  12. baptism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Baptism (Catholic Church), Baptism (Christian), Baptism (LDS Church), Baptism (Laibach album), Baptism (Lenny Kravitz album), Baptism (Lutheran Church), Baptism (Mormonism), Baptism (Stefano Battaglia album), Baptism (band), Baptism (disambiguation), Baptism (song), Baptism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Baptism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. baptism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. baptism: Rhymezone
  17. baptism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. baptism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. baptism: FreeDictionary.org
  20. baptism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. baptism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. baptism: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. baptism: Merriam-Webster
  24. baptism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. baptism: Legal dictionary

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  1. baptism: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  3. baptism: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Baptism: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. baptism: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Baptism)

▸ noun:  (Christianity) A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water.
▸ noun:  A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming.
▸ noun:  (rare, nonstandard) The Baptist faith; the Baptist denominations of Christianity.

Similar:
christening, baptizing, baptizement, immersion, ordination, baptism of desire, se-baptism, sacrament, confirmation, debaptism, more...

Opposite:
apostasy, desecration, profanation, sacrilege, renunciation

Types:
immersion, sprinkling, infusion, aspiration, rebaptism, more...

Phrases:
christian baptism, water baptism, conditional baptism, believers baptism, baptism of fire, more...

Adjectives:
infant, christian, holy, first, adult, second, true, private, spiritual, only, valid

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Similar:
christening, baptizing, baptizement, immersion, ordination, baptism of desire, se-baptism, sacrament, confirmation, debaptism, more...

Opposite:
apostasy, desecration, profanation, sacrilege, renunciation

Types:
immersion, sprinkling, infusion, aspiration, rebaptism, more...

Phrases:
christian baptism, water baptism, conditional baptism, believers baptism, baptism of fire, lay baptism, Baptism for the dead, baptism by fire, blood baptism, hypothetical baptism, baptism of blood, more...

Adjectives:
infant, christian, holy, first, adult, second, true, private, spiritual, only, valid

Colors:
    white,     blue,     gold,     silver,     light blue, more...



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