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Identity conferred in church
Answer for the clue "Identity conferred in church ", 14 letters:
christian name
Word definitions for christian name in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Christian \Chris"tian\, a. 1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. 3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. --Blackstone. 4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Traditionally, a christian name or baptismal name is a personal name given on the occasion of Christian baptism , with the ubiquity of infant baptism in medieval Christendom . In Elizabethan England , as suggested by Camden , the term christian name was ...
Usage examples of christian name.
I use my Christian name now, but for the purposes of introducing the world to the heroes I know, you may call me simply the Minstrel.
She was one of those upstarts from the lowest class, who had become an imitation white by learning to speak Spanish and taking the Christian name of Florencia.
Modern printed tales, that have presumably had the advantage of proof-correction, can even be observed to hesitate in the heroine's Christian name.
He bore the Christian name of an Emperor and great general and a family name that should still have been enriched by the purple, but he would have traded both for a drink of water or a clean breeze.
She did not live to be pained by the contrast, to which her eyes were opened, between her own and her adopted people, nor to learn what things could be done in the Christian name she loved, nor to see her husband in a less honorable light than she left him, nor to be involved in any way in the frightful massacre of 1622.