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Plural of baptism

regular plural

The plural of baptism is baptisms.

Forms of baptism

Singularbaptism /ˈbæptɪzəm/
Pluralbaptisms
Countablecountable and uncountable

Baptisms in a sentence

  • Is it wrong to arrange destination baptisms in the same way people get married in tropical resorts just so I can make horribly puntastic T-shirts?2010, Jonathan Acuff, Stuff Christians Like, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry puntastic

Meaning of baptism

  1. noun A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water.
  2. noun A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming.
  3. noun The moment at which an object is first assigned a proper name.

Full definition of baptism

Questions about the plural of baptism

What is the plural of baptism?
The plural of baptism is baptisms.
Is baptism countable?
Baptism is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baptism (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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