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baptism

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baptism

noun

1 the baptism ceremony:

christening, naming, immersion, sprinkling;

rare lustration.

2 this event constituted his baptism as a politician:

initiation, debut, introduction, inauguration, launch, beginning, rite of passage;

French rite de passage;

formal commencement.

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