Definition of "baptismal name" [baptismal name]

• See Christian name. (noun)

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• "The Scots of former times recognized their debt by frequent use of the baptismal name Malcolm, i.e.,"
• "His baptismal name was Henry; but many years later, when he had attained to great holiness, God changed his name into Amandus, or"
• "In the school at Volodymyr Josaphat -- Johannes was the saint's baptismal name -- gave evidence of unusual talent; he applied himself with the greatest zeal to the study of ecclesiastical Slav, and learned almost the entire casoslov (breviary), which from this period he began to read daily."