unbaptized
Americanadjective
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But the case of unbaptized infants is a more poignant matter.
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As Pope Benedict XVI, he will probably approve a document recognizing unbaptized babies' full entrée into heaven.
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Medieval scholastics gradually construed a more humane destiny for unbaptized infants and for pious adults who died before Christ.
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The bishop, the seduction speech runs, is so conservative that he will end by bringing the Communists clamping down on the church, and then how about the souls unshriven, the infants unbaptized?
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Thus, in Germany, Jack-o’-lanterns are said to be the souls of unbaptized children, that have no rest in the grave, and must hover between heaven and earth.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
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