aspersion

• We have not seen in your paper any correction of this aspersion, although the assertion of it has placed you in a dilemma; for, if such were the fact, as you asserted, the Montreal affidavits would have little application to the case. —  Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
• On the contrary, I made such efforts to welcome the shower of dirty water, that at the end of half an hour I had taken quite a fancy to this novel kind of aspersion, and I resolved to come as often as I could to the happy spot where such treasures were freely bestowed. —  The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Ame)
• Indignant at such an aspersion, he wrote a letter, directed to his maligners, vindicating himself sharply from it, which he showed to his grandfather, John Skinner of Langside, for his approval. —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
• Baptism and immersion are, therefore, identical, and to say baptism is by aspersion is as if one should say, immersion by aspersion, or any other absurdity of the same nature." —  To Infidelity and Back
• The Council of Ravenna_, 1311, decreed: "Baptism is to be administered by trine aspersion or immersion." —  To Infidelity and Back

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