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Answer for the clue "Abundant source ", 4 letters:
font

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Word definitions for font in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"water basin," especially used in baptism, late Old English, from Latin fons (genitive fontis ) "fountain" (see fountain ), especially in Medieval Latin fons baptismalis "baptismal font." The word is sometimes used poetically for "a fountain; a source."

Usage examples of font.

The altar, instead of being at the east end of the church where the apse was, had been placed at the end of the north transept and the apsed end was now a baptistry, complete with a late Victorian marble font on three stone steps.

Whether it is essential that someone should raise the person baptized from the sacred font?

Whether in Baptism It Is Necessary for Someone to Raise the Baptized from the Sacred Font?

Objection 1: It seems that in Baptism it is not necessary for someone to raise the baptized from the sacred font.

But Christ when baptized was not raised by anyone from the font, but according to Matt.

Therefore it seems that neither when others are baptized should anyone raise the baptized from the sacred font.

But it seems ridiculous that after being baptized, adults who can stand up of themselves and leave the sacred font, should be held up by another.

Therefore there seems no need for anyone, especially in the Baptism of adults, to raise the baptized from the sacred font.

Consequently someone is needed to receive the baptized from the sacred font as though for the purpose of instructing and guiding them.

It is not on account of bodily weakness that the baptized is raised from the sacred font by the godparent, but on account of spiritual weakness, as stated above.

Therefore he who raises a baptized person from the font is not bound to instruct him.

Only three days later, when he took part in the magnificent christening ceremony that named the child Elizabeth, he saw that the iron cross was pinned to the inside of the chrisom, the robe in which the child would be wrapped when she was taken from the baptismal font.

She was absolved by Cardinal Pozzobonelli, Archbishop of Milan, and he then confirmed her, changing the name of Therese, which she had received at the baptismal font, to Mary Magdalen, thus shewing her how she should save her soul by following the example of her new patroness, whose wantonness had hitherto been her pattern.

This young man whom I had held at the font as the son of the actor Daturi was possibly my own son.

I did not feel any curiosity to know the name of the he or she saint whom her godmothers had constituted her patron at the baptismal font.