paedobaptism
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See also: pædobaptism
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paedobaptism (usually uncountable, plural paedobaptisms)
- The baptism of infants or young children.
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed Spiritual Religion”, in Aids to Reflection[1]:
- 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.
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- christening (in some faith traditions)
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baptism of infants or young children
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