Words similar to baptism

Example sentences for: baptism

How can you use “baptism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The most avid practitioners are Mormons, who believe that ancestors can be saved through posthumous baptism and have established 3,200 genealogy libraries around the world to encourage conversions.
The popular use of the name in the US in the 1870s must have been in honor of Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909), since the surnames of Civil War officers were often used in baptism.
A gossip was a sponsor at a baptism.
As the explorer Ernest Giles put it, the explorer's experience is a “baptism worse than that of fire—the baptism of no water.”
In these he reprised such religious and mythical shower scenes as the baptism of Christ, and Diana as she was spied upon by Actaeon.