unbaptized
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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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Medieval scholastics gradually construed a more humane destiny for unbaptized infants and for pious adults who died before Christ.
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The last two words of this sentence should read, "unbaptized adults," or "the unbaptized, excepting infants."
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But the case of unbaptized infants is a more poignant matter.
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How often had her mother, whom her Grandfather had buried in the forest, told her that the souls of unbaptized children roamed about by night.
From Peasant Tales of Russia by Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, V.I.
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