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Baptist

//ˈbæptɪst// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.

    "One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II."

Noun
  1. 1
    An adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity, which believes in the baptism of believers (sometimes only adults), as opposed to the baptism of infants. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A person who baptizes.
  3. 3
    follower of Baptistic doctrines wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English baptist, baptiste, borrowed from Old French baptiste, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptista, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστής (baptistḗs).

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