Baptistnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbæp.tɪst/us/ˈbæp.tɪst/a member of a Christian group that believes that baptism should not happen until a person is old enough to ask for it and to understand its meaning
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- Adventist
- Anglican
- animism
- born-again
- Calvinist
- catholic
- guru
- Hare Krishna
- Hindu
- hot-gospeller
- Islamist
- nonconformist
- pantheism
- papist
- Parsi
- puritan
- puritan
- televangelism
- yogi
- Zionism
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Examples from literature
- A Baptist preacher named Shirley married us.
- He was a Baptist preacher.
- He was a Baptist.
- Mr. Hughes, a clergyman of the baptist church, was anxious and ready to serve it.
- The old sinner said the exception was made because my wife was a Baptist.