1920, Courtenay Frederic William Dunn, The Natural History of the Child: A Book for All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Women, and Children, page 233:
The fireplace also heated water for the godsibs to wash their hands with as they were instructed by the rubric to do before leaving the church.
2006, David Postles, Joel Thomas Rosenthal, Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales (Western Michigan Univ.):
[…] where 34 % of testators who mentioned godchildren were homonymous with those godsibs.
2007, Christina Hardyment, Malory: The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler, Harper Collins (→ISBN), page 50:
Godsibs and Good Lords
The most important people in the baptismal party that processed from Newbold Revel to the church porch were the three people who had undertaken to support the baby's introduction into the Christian faith. […] Godsibs, as godparents were called, were chosen with care and took their responsibilities seriously. […] since a baby was almost always given the Christian name of the most important godsib, his name must provide a clue.
2013, Edmund Curtis, A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals): From 1086 to 1513, Routledge (→ISBN), page 306:
Holinshed's Chronicle says: 'James Earl of Desmond being suffered and not controlled, during the government of Richard Duke of York his godsib and of Thomas Earl of Kildare his kinsman, did put upon the King's subjects […]'
godparent (as coparent, compadre)
1966, Henry F. Dobyns, Paul L. Doughty, Allan R. Holmberg, Cornell Peru Project, Peace Corps Program Impact in the Peruvian Andes: Final Report
The Vicosino then went to his godsib and then to the Cornell Peru Project field director for confirmation of […]
1968, Paul L. Doughty, Mary F. Doughty, Huaylas: An Andean District in Search of Progress:
[page 37:] After a man's kin and godsibs, the next allegiance is to his paisanos (fellow countrymen) or […]
[page 117:] Pattern for Type A : Spiritual or honorary godparents and godsibs
Male Plural Female
FATHER PARENTS MOTHER
(Compadre) (Compadres) (Comadre)
[page 249, glossary:] comadre, godsib or gossip, the title and term of address used by the godparent or ceremonial sponsor of a child of object in speaking with or about the mother of the child or the female owner of the object sponsored, and vice versa, if the godparent is a woman.
1968, Earl W. Morris, Coming Down the Mountain: The Social Worlds of Mayobamba:
[page 51:] Marriage of a godfather with the widowed mother of his godchild would be as shockingly outrageous as brother-sister or uncle-niece marriage, more "unthinkably ugly than cousin marriage which does occur, […] Mayobamba inherited the belief that such affinity constitutes a barrier to marriage from Spain, where it still operates as such (Kenny 1961:71). This aspect of ritual kinship [of parent and godparent] is emphasized in the old English term godsib, now corrupted into "gossip" […]
[other pages:]
[…] to members of their own family, intimates (especially their godsibs), and ideally the priest, who usually is too busy to accept all invitations.
[…]
With his godsib's aid, he got nearly everyone in the village to attend an Indigenous Community meeting.
1976, Henry F. Dobyns, Paul L. Doughty, Peru: A Cultural History, New York : Oxford University Press
The Indian might have to sell his horticultural surplus and livestock to his godsib at less than market price, but […]
