Definition of "baptisms" [baptisms]

• Plural form of baptism. (noun)

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• "Perhaps the most worrying set of statistics for the Church of England is the decline in baptisms."
• "Christ's sake, and the inward operation of the Holy Ghost, are called baptisms, in so far as they produce the effect of the Baptism of"
• "Every time he completed a work that he considered of real importance -- relatively more often than modesty might have prescribed -- he celebrated the birth of the masterpiece by one of these oddly termed baptisms in tannin."