rebaptisation
English edit
Etymology edit
From re- + baptise + -ation.
Noun edit
rebaptisation (countable and uncountable, plural rebaptisations)
- (obsolete) A second baptism.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- And where true baptisme was not before given, the case of rebaptisation is cleare.
Further reading edit
- “rebaptisation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.