Word Meanings - GODDAUGHTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.

Related words: (words related to GODDAUGHTER)

• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• SPONSORIAL
  Pertaining to a sponsor.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• BAPTISM
  The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring. (more info) baptême, L. baptisma,
• SPONSOR
  1. One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety. 2. One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.
• BAPTISMAL
  Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows. Baptismal name, the Christian name, which is given at baptism.
• BAPTISMALLY
  In a baptismal manner.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• SPONSORSHIP
  State of being a sponsor.
• RESPONSORIAL
  Responsory; antiphonal. J. H. Newman.
• ANABAPTISM
  The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
• REBAPTISM
  A second baptism.
• RESPONSORY
  Containing or making answer; answering. Johnson.
• PAEDOBAPTISM
  Pedobaptism.
• DESPONSORY
  A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.