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pedobaptism

pedobaptism is the alternative form of paedobaptism.

Meaning of paedobaptism

Noun

paedobaptism (usually uncountable, plural paedobaptisms)

  1. (usually) The baptism of infants or young children.
    • It is not, however, to the predecessors of this African, whoever they were that authorized Pædo-baptism, and at whatever period it first became general—it is not to the Church at the time being, that these consequences are justly imputable.1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed Spiritual Religion”, in Aids to Reflection
    Synonyms:
    christening

Forms of pedobaptism

pluralpedobaptisms

Origin of pedobaptism

From pedo- (“child”) + baptism.

Questions about pedobaptism

What is pedobaptism the alternative form of?
Pedobaptism is the alternative form of paedobaptism.

Words near pedobaptism in the dictionary

  1. pedo-staches
  2. pedobait
  3. pedobaited
  4. pedobaiting
  5. pedobaits
  6. pedobaptism
  7. pedobaptisms
  8. pedobaptist
  9. pedobaptists
  10. pedobarograph
  11. pedobarographic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedobaptism (page history and authors); paedobaptism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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