baptize
verb (used with object)
to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism.
rebaptize
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a word derived from
baptize.
Example Sentences
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Ready to rebaptize ourselves as single women, we dimmed the lights, arranged our baked goods around the edge of the tub and slipped into the water.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
Will they rebaptize the streets and dismantle the monument to Vladimir Ilyich?
From Time Magazine Archive
The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.
From Beyond Good and Evil by Helen Zimmern
These excursions to the haunts of youth seemed to rebaptize him, and then his eloquence took a pastoral character, and Isaac Walton himself would have loved to hear him.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
But the youth was not quite so far gone as to rebaptize himself with a female cognomen just yet.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies
