All 9 Uses of
baptism
in
The Bean Trees
- Lou Ann hadn't yet broken the news that, when the baby was born, the plan was to give it a Catholic baptism.†
Chpt 2.
- Lou Ann made the baptism decision purely for practical reasons: if one of the grandmothers was going to have a conniption, it might as well be the one who was eighteen hundred miles away rather than the one who lived right across town.†
Chpt 2.
- For baptizing the baby.†
Chpt 4.
- I remember when you was baptized in Tug Fork, you was just a little old bit of a thing.†
Chpt 4.
- Lou Ann wondered how Granny Logan was picturing a baptism in one bottle of water.†
Chpt 4.
- Just because he wasn't baptized in some old dirty crick, Lou Ann added in a voice way too low for Granny Logan to hear.†
Chpt 4.
- Later, while she was nursing the baby in the front room, she closed her eyes and tried to remember being baptized in Tug Fork.†
Chpt 4.
- It's water from Tug Fork, the crick at home that I was baptized in.
Chpt 4. *baptized = "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremonystandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Granny Logan brought it for baptizing Dwayne Ray.†
Chpt 4.
Definition:
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(baptism) a Christian ceremony signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
or:
a challenging experience that initiates or purifieseditor's notes: Most churches baptize infants, but some require an adult to request baptism, and a few (such as the Quakers) require no baptism at all.
Typically, water is used as part of the ceremony, such as sprinkling a little water on a baby's head; though some churches use complete submersion in water.