baptismal name
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baptismal name (plural baptismal names)
- A name given at baptism (christening).
- 1685, Charles Cotton (translator), Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne, London: T. Basset et al., Volume 1, “Of Names,” pp. 538-539,[1]
- 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?
- 1779, William Gilpin, Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England[2], London: R. Blamire, Volume 1, Lecture 1, p. 9:
- 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.
- 1846, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 6, in Lucretia[3], volume 2, London: Saunders and Otley, page 234:
- “John Walter Ardworth, commonly called Walter; he, like me, preferred to be known only by his second baptismal name. […] ”
- 1940, Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory[4], London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 85:
- they had been lovers—if you could give that name to a relationship in which she had never used his baptismal name
- 1685, Charles Cotton (translator), Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne, London: T. Basset et al., Volume 1, “Of Names,” pp. 538-539,[1]
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name given at christening
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