Definition for Baptism:

• The sacrament in which immersion or sprinkling with water symbolizes the washing away of sin, and which admits to membership in the Christian church; the act of sprinkling or immersing as a sacrament, or of being sprinkled or immersed; any experience by which one is cleansed spiritually, or any sanctifying ordeal; as, the adventurer here suffered his baptism of fire.

Synonyms for Baptism:

• n.

  •
  • baptise,
  • celebrate,
  • baptize,
  • anthem.
  •act (noun)
  • baptism.
  •baptism (noun)
  • beginning,
  • a baptism of fire,
  • dedication,
  • launch,
  • sprinkling,
  • inauguration,
  • christening,
  • the childs baptism,
  • aspersion,
  • affusion,
  • naming,
  • launching,
  • DBUT.
  •church rite; initiation (noun)
  • debut,
  • purge,
  • baptismal,
  • purgation,
  • ritual,
  • ablution,
  • dunking.
  •entrance (noun)
  • ingoing,
  • immigration,
  • importation,
  • importations,
  • incomings.
  •immersion (noun)
  • baptismal regeneration,
  • infant baptism,
  • rebirth.
  •purification (noun)
  • ex purgation,
  • dis-infections,
  • re-generation,
  • ex purgations,
  • ex-purgations,
  • re-births,
  • dis infection,
  • re births,
  • re generations,
  • ex-purgation,
  • re-generations,
  • re birth,
  • re generation,
  • purifyings,
  • sanctifications,
  • disinfections,
  • lavings,
  • dis-infection,
  • re-birth,
  • expiations,
  • dis infections,
  • bathings.
  •rite (noun)
  • service,
  • vesper,
  • evensong,
  • sacrifice,
  • convocation,
  • marriage,
  • canon,
  • last rites,
  • ceremony,
  • confirmation,
  • observance,
  • rite,
  • transubstantiation,
  • matrimony,
  • remembrance,
  • revival,
  • solemnization,
  • eucharist,
  • communion,
  • celebration,
  • missal,
  • novena,
  • mass,
  • holiday,
  • wedlock,
  • liturgy,
  • nones,
  • Siddur,
  • sacrament.
  •rite of passage (noun)
  • rite passage,
  • initiation rites,
  • initiatory rites,
  • rites de passage,
  • rite-passage.
  •sacrament (noun)
  • holy orderses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Hail Mary,
  • matins,
  • morning prayer,
  • amen,
  • offertory,
  • call down,
  • revival meeting,
  • consecrate,
  • Our Father,
  • benediction,
  • litany,
  • prayer,
  • high mass,
  • catechism,
  • blessing,
  • the Book of Common Prayer,
  • the Lord's Prayer,
  • invocation,
  • vespers,
  • holy communion,
  • pray.
  •
  • the Eucharist,
  • redeem,
  • offering,
  • rosary,
  • meeting,
  • requiem,
  • immersion,
  • sermon.
  •
  • confirm,
  • witness,
  • christen.
  •
  • lesson,
  • save,
  • grace.
  •
  • order,
  • sponsor.

Paraphrases for Baptism:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    christening.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    blood.

Antonyms for Baptism:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    discharge, removal.

Baptism Sentence Examples:

• The operation was performed with a red - hot knife or a hot iron, and this was known as the " baptism by fire."

• Chatty had been almost as much a piece of still life as the boat: but the baptism of the spray had been flung in her face, and dreams of triumphant winds and dazzling waves outside had crept into her cave.

Homophones for Baptism:

• bedizen, bedesman, botswanan, Butea Kino, batswana, botswana, beadsman, bodkin, by design, buddhism, Butea Gum, butacaine, beautician, betoken, batsman, boatswain.

Hypernym for Baptism:

• n.

  • act
    christening, affusion, aspersion, sprinkling, immersion.

Hyponym for Baptism:

• n.

  • act
    sacrament.