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godparent
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n. a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A godparent , in many denominations of Christianity , is someone who sponsors a child's baptism , although the term was also used in a legal sense. In both Christian and secular views, a godparent tends to be an individual chosen by the parents to take ...
Usage examples of godparent.
Some Kashubian or Koshavian water sprite, Thula, Duller, or Tul, is supposed to have been her godparent.
Seven captains, each with his train of palikars, were to come as godparents.
Jim were standing at the carved stone font which dated back to 1574, surrounded by the godparents of their children, totaling six in all.
The role of godparents, she said, was to be guardian to the spiritual life of the child.
In the Orthodox Church, even the children of closely related godparents were kept from marrying, on the grounds that this amounted to spiritual incest.
He had the picture ceaselessly before his eyes of how the bridegroom had chosen his godparents from the assembly, how he had invited them to the crowning-day, how he had also approached Captain Michales and had started back before his glance.
I was finishing off a short list of purchases a few afternoons ago when I was discovered by a lady of my acquaintance whom, swerving aside from the lead given us by her godparents thirty years ago, we will call Agatha.
At your first Christening your Godparents revoked the Devil and all his Works.