debaptize

Definitions

1. To undo the baptism of.
   transitive
2. To rename or to remove a name from.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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⟳.”

“Fargue had persuaded Jarry to ‘debaptize’ him from the more explicit original title, Caméleo, ‘Leo’ being too obviously related to ‘Léon’.”

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