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paedobaptism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /piːdəʊˈbaptɪz(ə)m/ (UK)

Etymology

From paedo- + baptism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The baptism of infants or young children.
    • It is not, however, to the predecessors of this African, whoever they were that authorized Pædo-baptism, and at whatever period it first became general—it is not to the Church at the time being, that these consequences are justly imputable. 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed Spiritual Religion”, in Aids to Reflection:

Forms

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pedo-baptism alternative lexicographic
paedobaptisms Number=Plur lexicographic
pædo-baptism alternative lexicographic
paedo-baptism alternative lexicographic
pædobaptism alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

antipaedobaptism

Relateds

baptism · baptize · baptise · Anabaptist · paedobaptist · believer’s baptism · pedobaptist · Anabaptism · baptiser · credobaptist · baptizer · baptistic · baptist · Baptist · credobaptism · baptismal · baptistry

Synonyms

christening

Translations (10)

de Kindertaufe (baptism of infants or young children) · fi lapsikaste (baptism of infants or young children) · de Kleinkindstaufe (baptism of infants or young children) · de Kleinkindtaufe (baptism of infants or young children) · pt pedobatismo (baptism of infants or young children) · el νηπιοβάπτισμα (baptism of infants or young children) · de Säuglingstaufe (baptism of infants or young children) · pl chrzest młodego dziecka (baptism of infants or young children) · de Kindstaufe (baptism of infants or young children) · de Kindtaufe (baptism of infants or young children)