baptize
Example Sentences
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Miraculous moments in the story, such as water welling from a rock where Patrick later baptizes people, play out in a quiet tone.
Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
From Los Angeles Times
“As a missionary, we didn’t have to receive special permission from somebody in order to baptize an undocumented individual,” she recalled.
From Los Angeles Times
To this day, at the start of every new season in Statesboro, any new players or coaches are “baptized” in its magical waters.
From Los Angeles Times
Once lawfully allowed in with provisional humanitarian status, they found our church — where they could be baptized and publicly profess their faith in Jesus — and legal help to begin their asylum request.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.