Debaptize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To undo the baptism of. transitive

    "New street names cannot cause confusion with existing streets, nor is it any longer permitted to debaptize parts of streets in order to give them new names […]"

  2. 2
    To rename or to remove a name from. transitive

    "The volkisch leanings were therefore, for example, to debaptize the Christian festivals and consecrate them instead to the gods of the Teutons, who constituted the Volksgeist, the “heritage from the ancestors” or the genius of the race."

Example

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"New street names cannot cause confusion with existing streets, nor is it any longer permitted to debaptize parts of streets in order to give them new names […]"

Etymology

From de- + baptize.

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