paedobaptism

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See also: pædobaptism

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Etymology

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From paedo- +‎ baptism.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /piːdəʊˈbaptɪz(ə)m/

Noun

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paedobaptism (usually uncountable, plural paedobaptisms)

  1. 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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