All 12 Uses
baptism
in
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene by Greene
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- About a poor woman who took to him her son to be baptized.†
Chpt 1.2 *baptized = "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony OR initiated or purified by a challenging experiencestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- She wanted him called Pedro — but he was drunk that he took no notice at all and baptized the boy Brigitta.†
Chpt 1.2
- The boy, father, has not been baptized.†
Chpt 1.3
- You could trust God to make allowances, but you couldn't trust smallpox, starvation, men ...He said, 'My dear,' tightening his grip upon the brandy bottle ...He had baptized her at his last visit: she had been like a rag doll with a wrinkled aged face — it had seemed unlikely that she would live long.... He had felt nothing but a regret; it was difficult even to feel shame where no one blamed him.†
Chpt 2.1
- Once for five minutes seven years ago they had been lovers — if you could give that name to a relationship in which she had never used his baptismal name: to her it was just an incident, a scratch which heals completely in the healthy flesh: she was even proud of having been the priest's woman.†
Chpt 2.1baptismal = relating to a Christian ceremony signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth OR relating to a challenging experience that initiates or purifies
- And, father, there are many children to be baptized.†
Chpt 3.1baptized = "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony OR initiated or purified by a challenging experiencestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- He asked sharply, 'How many children are there here — unbaptized?'†
Chpt 3.1unbaptized = not "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony OR not initiated or purified by a challenging experiencestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbaptized means not and reverses the meaning of baptized. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- No doubt you will be holding a baptism.†
Chpt 3.1
- He said slyly, 'After all, father — there are the baptisms.'†
Chpt 3.1
- He said — with a feeling of cunning as though he were cheating a greedy prompter inside his own heart — 'Tell the people, Pedro, that I only want one peso for the baptisms ...'†
Chpt 3.1
- He saw the little group of Indians: women whose children he had baptized: Pedro: the man from the cantina was there too, kneeling with his face buried in his plump hands, a chain of beads falling between the fingers.†
Chpt 3.1baptized = "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony OR initiated or purified by a challenging experiencestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- He said to the half-caste, 'Really ...I had forgotten ...' 'You did well out of the baptisms,' the schoolmaster said.†
Chpt 3.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(baptism) a Christian ceremony signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
or:
a challenging experience that initiates or purifiesMost 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. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)