Definition of confirmand in English:
confirmand
noun ˈkɒnfəmandkənˈfərmənd
A person who is to undergo the religious rite of confirmation.
Example sentencesExamples
- That was all the priest who taught our group of confirmands believed to be necessary, and it was not adequate.
- In the case of confirmation, there is a special prayer that seeks the Holy Spirit's strengthening of the confirmand for his/her participation in the mission of the church.
- Confirmation branded its confirmands on their foreheads with the mark of episcopacy, and it was an in-your-face gesture to nonconformists and to others who held a low view of the episcopal office.
- The remaining confirmands thought the hug was part of the ritual, and did the same.
- On confirmation Sunday at our church, each confirmand's Scripture passage was printed in the bulletin.
- The 70 confirmands had received some prior training and here were given a diploma and rose.
- Scan the photographs into the computer and type in the names of each confirmand or graduate with their pictures.
- When, in the next years, the churches decided to retain the practice of confirmation, this blessing with the laying on of hands was retained only for the confirmands.
- Then, in the confirmation prayer itself, while the bishop lays hands upon the confirmand, he prays, ‘empower him for your service.’
- Even so, email prayer partnerships established between youth confirmands and older shut-ins bring generations closer together.
- Focusing on confirmands has the advantage of using a group that had a common starting point: some roughly similar degree of documented church involvement during adolescence.
- And the confirmands appreciate their presence too.
Definition of confirmand in US English:
confirmand
nounkənˈfərməndkənˈfərmənd
A person who is to undergo the religious rite of confirmation.
Example sentencesExamples
- That was all the priest who taught our group of confirmands believed to be necessary, and it was not adequate.
- Confirmation branded its confirmands on their foreheads with the mark of episcopacy, and it was an in-your-face gesture to nonconformists and to others who held a low view of the episcopal office.
- On confirmation Sunday at our church, each confirmand's Scripture passage was printed in the bulletin.
- Scan the photographs into the computer and type in the names of each confirmand or graduate with their pictures.
- Even so, email prayer partnerships established between youth confirmands and older shut-ins bring generations closer together.
- The 70 confirmands had received some prior training and here were given a diploma and rose.
- The remaining confirmands thought the hug was part of the ritual, and did the same.
- When, in the next years, the churches decided to retain the practice of confirmation, this blessing with the laying on of hands was retained only for the confirmands.
- Then, in the confirmation prayer itself, while the bishop lays hands upon the confirmand, he prays, ‘empower him for your service.’
- Focusing on confirmands has the advantage of using a group that had a common starting point: some roughly similar degree of documented church involvement during adolescence.
- And the confirmands appreciate their presence too.
- In the case of confirmation, there is a special prayer that seeks the Holy Spirit's strengthening of the confirmand for his/her participation in the mission of the church.