sacramento

Definitions of sacramento
  1. noun
    a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
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    battesimo
    a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
    penitenza
    a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
    travaso, versamento
    the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head
    aspersione
    the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
    confessione
    (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
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