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单词 spiritual affinity
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spiritual affinity
3. Chiefly Roman Catholic Church. The state of being spiritually linked as a result of sponsoring a child at baptism or confirmation; spiritual connection between godparents and godchild (or his or her parents), or between the godparents themselves; an instance of this. Now usually in spiritual affinity. Also in early use: †a person or group of people having this type of connection (obsolete). Cf. gossipred n. 1a.The concept of spiritual affinity is no longer an element of Roman Catholicism, but remains a feature of certain other forms of Christianity, such as the Orthodox Church.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [noun] > spiritual relation of participants
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affinity1357
gossiphood1506
cognationa1575
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [noun] > relation of godparents or child
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affinity1357
gossipry?1548
gossipship1572
cognationa1575
J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) l. 556 His sib frend, Or any othir that is of his affinite, Gastely or bodili.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. v. f. xxxiiiv I haue none affinitye..eyther by gossepred or by maryage.
1592 J. Throckmorton Petition most Excellent Maiestie 33 There is such affinitie betweene the Godfather and the childe..that it hindereth mariage.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 180 The like may be said of Gossipred or Compaternitie, which though by the Canon Law, it be a spirituall affinity.
1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France 116 Christians..established the degrees of Spiritual Affinity between the Godfather and Godmother.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Romanists talk of a spiritual Affinity, contracted by the Sacrament of Baptism and Confirmation.
1837 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Rev. Aug. 139 That spiritual affinity which the church of Rome supposes to be contracted between sponsors.
1866 E. A. Freeman in Fortn. Rev. May 654 Æthelwald purposely asks the King to become godfather to the child, in order that he might thereby contract a spiritual affinity with the mother.
1907 P. Deming Story of Pathfinder 176 He said that he did not like the midnight baptism, the spiritual affinity, the doctrines of Perfectionism, or the excitement about the end of the world.
1908 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 446/2 The institution of sponsors was retained, with infant baptism, by the Evangelical Churches at the Reformation... The notion of spiritual affinity was dropped.
1978 P. K. Jewett Infant Baptism & Covenant of Grace (1980) 179 They [sc. the parents] were rendered unworthy of so godly an affinity with the child born of their carnal union.
2010 G. Chapple tr. M. Mitterauer Why Europe? iii. 88 Islam..does not have baptism, hence no baptismal sponsorship or any sacramental forms of spiritual affinity modeled on it.
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