1. sacrament

noun. ['ˈsækrəmənt'] 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.

Rhymes with Sacrament

• abandonment
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• abortifacient
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• abundant
• accelerant
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• accompaniment
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• accomplishment
• accountant
• accouterment
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• achievement
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Sentences with sacrament

1. Noun, singular or mass
Baptism is often the first sacrament children receive.

Quotes about sacrament

1. A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
- Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

2. What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it.""Isn't it?
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

3. The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child