How To Use Christening In A Sentence
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The christening was a great occasion, with a houseful of guests, and a great deal of speechmaking.
The Great Hunger
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At first the pictures appear to have been taken at a family gathering - a christening or a birthday party.
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At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
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I seem to recall that 30 years ago, when christening was a rite carried out almost unquestioningly, godparents were often appointed as a matter of course or protocol, and the role meant little more than remembering birthdays.
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The rechristening is a much-needed - albeit belated
Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0
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As the Cold War dawned, American Communists, who were still a formidable force, sought a rebirth by christening themselves "Progressives," a moniker usurped from the reform movement of the Teddy Roosevelt era.
Obama a 'Reaganite'? It Just Might Work
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The rite was called christening, from the Greek word for anointing.
CLEAR PICTURES
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Tea was served with a piece of blue and white (the new guild's colours) iced christening cake.
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Stunned by the cultural assumptions of this re-christening, Tseng became Kwong Chi in his photographs, posing with phony officialism in front of famous landmarks.
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Furthermore we assumed that my granddaughter's christening would not be one of a number.
GOODBYE CURATE
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He asked Ginny if she would consent to a small celebration after the christening.
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The St George Chapel has witnessed christenings, weddings and funerals, and has given comfort to the Defence community in times of conflict and peace.
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But statistics of falling church attendance in the UK show that the Church can no longer take this for granted; people go to other places for help these days, and only come to church for christenings, weddings and funerals.
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My brother's christening name was Charles Yancy McAllister, but Chance is all anybody ever called him.
PAINT THE WIND
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When once attending a Christening, he discovered that it was customary to make a gift to the nurse, so reportedly stuck his hand in his pocket, pulled out a handful of gold guineas, and gave them to her without a second thought.
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Anyway my mother was done every time there was a christening and so ` ave I been with my other two.
GOODBYE CURATE
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I scarcely go to church, essentially weddings, funerals and christenings are what it takes to get me there.
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It was a christening that seemed to hunger for significance.
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Their lives were intertwined in many ways, through weddings, funerals, christenings, parties etc.
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Midwives often performed a rudimentary christening ceremony for the all-too-many infants losing the fight for life soon after their birth. 94 Mary's status as a wealthy householder and a member of the royal family endowed her with significant thaumaturgical credentials, which easily qualified her to perform christening ceremonies.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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7 He has toglieresti in brodo all over his agrammatical parts of face and as for that hippofoxphiz, unlucky number, late for the christening!
Finnegans Wake
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A christening was rudely interrupted when some unwelcome guests turned up at the car park of a Hampshire church.
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That thei also should haue in euery parisshe a faire sounde stone, made holowe and fitte to holde water: in the whiche the water consecrate for baptisme, may be kept for the christening of children.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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The christening was a very grand ceremony, in the eyes of the village folk, and everything was done in the most approved fashion.
Greifenstein
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Notice that Reed mistakenly thinks that reframing is just "rechristening" when it is really about truth-telling and alerting the public to a policy that goes well beyond "more troops.
George Lakoff: Escalating Truth
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You'll also find new baby sailor hats, baby sailor berets, baby sun bonnets, smocked bonnets for babies, and beautiful christening bonnets and christening hats.
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In christening the play, the trio decided to take racism by the horns, so to speak -- hence the title appended to fliers posted around campus, circa 2003.
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Miss Anderson, who claimed a collateral Dutch ancestry by the Van Hook, tucked in between her non-committal family name and the Julia given her in christening, was of the ordinary slender make of American girlhood, with dull blond hair, and a dull blond complexion, which would have left her face uninteresting if it had not been for the caprice of her nose in suddenly changing from the ordinary American regularity, after getting over its bridge, and turning out distinctly 'retrousse'.
April Hopes
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Anyway my mother was done every time there was a christening and so ` ave I been with my other two.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Birthdays are always celebrated, and christenings and confirmations are celebrated with large parties.
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And the little man was so pleased with the idea of having his name engrafted on that of the Toodleburg family, that he promised a fat turkey and the best pig of the litter for the christening dinner.
The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family
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A christening is a landmark in any child's life - make it something everyone will remember
Lil' Duck Duck
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Lawyers are notorious for lawyer-speak; my own alternate profession, medicine, has a weakness for Latin polysyllables, forever rechristening diseases and body parts for which simple English words already exist.
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Edward and Sophie have been preparing for Louise's christening at the private chapel at Windsor Castle on April 24.
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We also stock kilt hose, christening shawls, bedjackets, tartan scarves, ties etc. hand dyed wool and coned yarn for knitters and weavers.
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The new ceremonies are thought likely to hit demand for christenings by the Church of Scotland and other Christian churches.
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The pope excommunicated John and put England under a Church law that stated that no christening or marriage would be legal until the time the pope said that they would be.
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I like the fact that there is a requiem mass to celebrate the end of someone's life; I like the fact that there are baptisms and christenings.
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AT&T chief technology officer John Donovan defended this 4G rechristening in a blog post, writing that "Our HSPA+ network and upgraded backhaul is expected to deliver speed performance similar to initial LTE deployments.
4G fog thickens as AT&T upgrades vocabulary
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Now in this state of things, the general mode of eating must either have been with the spoon or the fingers; and this perhaps may have been the reason that spoons became an usual present from gossips to their god-children at christenings [78]; and that the bason and ewer, for washing before and after dinner, was introduced, whence the _ewerer_ was a great officer [79], and the _ewery_ is retained at Court to this day [80]; we meet with _damaske water_ after dinner [81], I presume, perfumed; and the words _ewer_ &c. plainly come from the
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
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Specks on the horizons they may be, but considerations of church weddings, christenings and the recognition of festivities around Christmas and Easter for some mini-mes might not be that far off.
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Ms. Nicholl also lost no time performing a nip-and-tuck on her book, adding three chapters on Ms. Middleton, swapping the cover photo of the princes for one of William and Kate and rechristening it: "The Making of a Royal Romance: William, Kate, and Harry—A Look Behind the Palace Walls.
Full Court Press: Britain's Newshounds Wage a Wedding Battle Royal
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Our function room is booked virtually every night of the week with weddings, christenings and funerals.
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Secondhand shops are prime hunting grounds for special-occasion baby and toddler clothes such as christening and holiday outfits and fancy party duds that have been worn only once or twice (if at all).
Baby clothing: Consider used
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Touch McCall used more imagination in rechristening themselves.
Hoboes That Pass in the Night
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Another reason to feel distress about this matter is the effect it would have on the dedicated bands of bell-ringers who regularly practise this traditional art and help celebrate events such as weddings or christenings.
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The tailor loved the little boy with all his soul; he attended his mother to her churching, and the child to the font; and, as a present to his little godson on his christening, he sent two yards of the finest white kerseymere in his shop, to make him a cloak.
Mens Wives
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On dark winter nights when I turned the key in the vestry door, I entered a spiritual time-machine, awash with ghosts from a century of christenings, weddings, funerals, harvests and carol services.
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Emery called to say that she and William had delayed the christening once more, over a name standoff this time.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince
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We have been invited this weekend to attend a baby christening party and the fudge is going to the party.
[TlxcalaClaudia] Christmas Eve Dinner - What to bring?
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Christenings increasingly call for finger food, light bright sponge cakes and pavlovas, rather than a sit-down feast.
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Hackney cars in Ireland transported brides to weddings, infants to christenings and mourners to funerals.
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Indeed, Fr. Harry's ability to show-up almost anywhere led to some friends christening him as the ‘Holy Spirit’ which he enjoyed no end!
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As with many other immigrant groups, the Poles maintain traditions most closely in those ceremonies for which the community holds great value: weddings, christenings and funerals.
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I'm not overly religious, I don't attend church and probably only step inside one for weddings, funerals and christenings, but I feel that it's the right way of doing it.
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When she formed Dum Dum Girls in 2008, Kristin Gundred took a page from the Ramones' playbook by rechristening herself Dee Dee and naming her band after a song by '80s new-romantic synth act Talk Talk.
Holiday Hoedowns
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Only three days later, when he took part in the magnificent christening ceremony that named the child Elizabeth, he saw that the iron cross was pinned to the inside of the chrisom, the robe in which the child would be wrapped when she was taken from the baptismal font.
This Scepter'd Isle
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The photographs in Robert's collection include holiday pictures, weddings, christenings, football matches and birthday parties.
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The christening was a disaster as Cliff Lee out-dueled CC Sabathia and the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies broke home-field advantage with a 6-1 victory.
Undefined
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Hollow wares constitute a very large category, ranging from the ewers, aquamaniles and jugs of the late-medieval period to lidded and open tankards, wine-cups, christening cups and goblets.
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The apparel example is representative of girls' christening dresses and boys' rompers.
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This poverty was glaringly obvious in rural churches, which were no better than byres, and christening, marriage, and burial dues, which were deeply resented.
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“I figured you and Vivian would have spent yesterday and today rechristening every room in the house,” she interrupts as she cuts the distance between us in half with a few agile steps on her snowshoes.
Heaven’s Fury
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Blackey, and Touch McCall used more imagination in rechristening themselves.
Hoboes That Pass in the Night
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In this code, Virginia's Christian ministers were required to record all christenings, marriages and burials they performed.
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After six weeks his parents, Michelle and Steve, organised an emergency Christening at the hospital chapel.
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He asked Ginny if she would consent to a small celebration after the christening.
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'My dear young lady, it is well known that your christening was the work of your aunt, who did it unknown to your parents when she had you in her power, out of pure obstinacy to a church with which she was not in sympathy, taking you surreptitiously, and indefensibly, to the font of the Establishment; so that the rite meant and could mean nothing at all ....
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
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At a christening party all the favors savor of the nursery -- splendid cradles of flowers, a bassinet of brilliante trimmed with ribbons for a _bonbonniere_, powder-boxes, puffs, little socks filled with sugar instead of little feet, an infant's cloak standing on end
Manners and Social Usages
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This was the beginning of a new era with the christening of the third ship to bear the name Perth.
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Then, as quick as thought (for dreams, thou knowest confine not themselves to the rules of the drama) ensued recoveries, lyings-in, christenings, the smiling boy, amply, even in her own opinion, rewarding the suffering mother.
Clarissa Harlowe
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My older cousins were also at the party with their kids which was a rare treat as we only see each other every few years, weddings, christenings, funerals.
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The large Christening cake was cut and divided up.
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At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
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Merrifield has asked the public for help in rechristening the establishment.
Beer: Dave Alexander on the end of the Brickskeller
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Additional local news items are welcomed by everyone, such as weddings, anniversaries, christenings, birthdays, birth announcements and deaths.
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After the christening, the ship majestically slides to the bottom of the harbor, and so we haven't managed after all to launch her, though that was our intention and our wills were in perfect working order.
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The whole party was bidden to her christening a month later, and Edward Lysaght, equally famous as a lawyer and an improvisatore, undertook to make the necessary vows in her name.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
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The exhibition is a showcase for the work of the Nagle Group and it features beautiful handmade crafts such as babies' blankets, christening gowns, scarves, hats, ponchos and many other items.
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I was brought up with very little religion around me, my parents go to church for weddings, christenings and funerals and that's it.
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With an ageing and small congregation of only about ten people there aren't many weddings or christenings.
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The exhibition includes hats worn at these events, including the feathered hat worn at the christening of Prince William in 1982.
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The quaich is used as a favour at many Scottish weddings, being presented to all at the top table, at christenings to celebrate the new life or gifted to friends as a symbol of friendship.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Mr King said McPhee had been to a christening and had drunk far more than he was used to.
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YE gied the wild-fowl, the best end of our christening dinner, to a friend of yours, ye auld rudas!
The Bride of Lammermoor
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He mocked his colleagues in Congress by christening Washington the ‘city of Satan.’
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The ceremony was something like a christening.
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A person with a turn for logic might argue that if God is the Father of all men, and if the child is father to the man, it follows that the true representative of God at the christening is the child itself.
Treatise on Parents and Children
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That thei also should haue in euery parisshe a faire sounde stone, made holowe and fitte to holde water: in the whiche the water consecrate for baptisme, may be kept for the christening of children.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Apart from christenings, weddings and funerals I have been to church exactly once in my life and that was aged ten when taken by my Gran.
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Their christening has been a tardy one, for who can tell what ages have passed since they first came into being?
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
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He could cry at Christenings, weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, wakes.
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The party had been held in nearby Lidget Green to celebrate the christening of Zatun's three-week-old baby.
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A group of married women might go together after a christening or a churching.
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The baby at his christening is shown off in a splendid robe, very much belaced and embroidered, and it is to be feared that it is a day of disturbance for him.
Manners and Social Usages
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It was a supper to celebrate the christening of their new baby.
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It's really important for people for weddings, funerals, christenings and worship.
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My sister Lisa and me with my first godchild, Bartolina, at her christening.
Cake Boss
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Tornado Blacky, and Touch McCall used more imagination in rechristening themselves.
Hoboes That Pass in the Night
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The new extension will increase our capacity from 70 to 125, enabling us to attract more outside bookings such as birthday parties, wedding receptions and christenings.
