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Baptist

See also: baptist

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Noun

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Baptist (countable and uncountable, plural Baptists)

  1. An adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity, which believes in the baptism of believers (sometimes only adults), as opposed to the baptism of infants.

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  • There is no single common term, either a single word or a phrase, for the Baptist denominations of Christianity. The terms such as Baptistdom and Baptistism are occasionally used, but are not accepted as standard.

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Adjective

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Baptist (comparative more Baptist, superlative most Baptist)

  1. Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Halton Holegate:
      One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin baptista, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστής (baptistḗs).

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Proper noun

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Baptist m (proper noun, strong, genitive Baptist or Baptistä)

  1. (Christianity, archaic) the Baptist (title of Saint John the Baptist)
    Synonym: (Johannes der) Täufer
    Johann Baptist ― John the Baptist

Etymology 2

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From English Baptist, eventually derived from the same Latin and Greek etyma as in etymology 1.

Noun

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Baptist m (weak, genitive Baptisten, plural Baptisten, feminine Baptistin)

  1. (Christianity) Baptist (male or of unspecified gender) (member of a Baptist church or denomination)
Declension
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Declension of Baptist [masculine, weak]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Baptist die Baptisten
genitive eines des Baptisten der Baptisten
dative einem dem Baptisten den Baptisten
accusative einen den Baptisten die Baptisten
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