Words similar to baptism

Example sentences for: baptism

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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.
It further suggested "[i]t would be a powerful focus for healing if the Church leaders were to nominate a day when we could each reassert the commitment to basic Christian principles we made at 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.”
The Amish allow a period of freedom before baptism, during which young people drink, take drugs, and use machinery and electricity.
The woman's name is Christine York, and she was chosen for this gruesome task on the day of her birth 20 years earlier, when she was seized from her mother's arms in the hospital by a satanic nurse and given a quickie baptism with rattlesnake blood.