baptismal name

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baptismal name (plural baptismal names)

  1. 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

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