Debaptize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Debaptize is a verb meaning (transitive) To undo the baptism of.
Meaning
(transitive) To undo the baptism of.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To rename or to remove a name from.
Example Sentences
Fargue had persuaded Jarry to ‘debaptize’ him from the more explicit original title, Caméleo, ‘Leo’ being too obviously related to ‘Léon’.
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 […]
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.
Word Forms
- debaptizes
- debaptizing
- debaptized
- debaptise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unbaptize, unbaptise, anabaptise, baptize, plunge, unabsolve.
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