baptismal name
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A name given at baptism (christening).
Example Sentences
- "1685, Charles Cotton (translator), Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne, London: T. Basset et al., Volume 1, “Of Names,” pp. 538-539, Will not Posterity say, that our Modern Reformation has been wonderfully exact, in having […] proceeded so far, as to quarrel with the Ancient Baptismal Names of Charles, Lewis, and Francis, to fill the World with Methusalems, Ezekiels, and Malachies, of a more Scriptural sound?"
- "A custom had generally obtained, of giving a new name, upon adopting a new member into a family. […] In imitation of this common practice, the old christians gave baptismal names to their children, which were intended to point out their heavenly adoption, as their surnames distinguished their temporal alliance."
- "“John Walter Ardworth, commonly called Walter; he, like me, preferred to be known only by his second baptismal name. […]”"
- "they had been lovers—if you could give that name to a relationship in which she had never used his baptismal name"