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What does baptism mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word baptism? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming.
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Preachers may choose to continue the Lenten theme of baptism by examining the Epistle reading.
From whichsoever of these motives it might be, true it is, that many of them came over to our religion, and were initiated into it by baptism.
Following baptism, the child is anointed with a special oil and dressed in new clothing.
Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth.
We are called back to our baptism, when our old self was drowned in the waters poured over our head and we were reborn children of God.
Most Catalans mark major events such as baptism and marriage with the appropriate religious ritual.

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