Meaning of gossipred | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Relationship by baptismal rites; spiritual affinity or parentage; sponsorship.
   historical, obsolete, uncountable
2. Idle talk; gossip.
   historical, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“The following are the principal provisions of this statute : — That intermarriages with the natives, or any connexion with them in the way of fostering or gossipred, should be considered and punished as high treason: […]”

“But perhaps the most singular illustration of the tendency of kinship to extend⟳ itself artificially under the empire of primitive ideas is to be found in certain Slavonic forms of gossipred or spiritual relationship.”

“Indeed gossipred became a powerful link⟳ of friendship between families; and to make⟳ its influence⟳ wider, noble or wealthy families often had for each child several sponsors of both sexes […]”

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