confirmand

English

Etymology

From Latin cōnfirmandus.

Noun

confirmand (plural confirmands)

1. (religion) A candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism.
   • 1868, Isaac Mayer Wise, Hymns, Psalms and Prayers‎^[1], page 203:

     The preacher then tells the confirmands, that as a token of their full consent to the confession just made, each of them should kiss the Scroll of the Law.

   • 1917 March 25, “Showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ”, in The Evangelical Herald‎^[2], volume 16, page 83:

     In confirmation the confirmand confesses his faith and expresses a willingness to accept and obey Jesus Christ as his Lord; and the Christian Church confirms the worthiness of the confirmand to partake of the fellowship and heavenly blessings which this new relation called church-membership involves.

   • 2009, Michael J. Coyner, The Race to Reach Out: Connecting Newcomers to Christ in a New Century‎^[3]:

     These persons are recruited from a list of several, active adults in the church that is submitted by each confirmand.

Translations

candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism

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• Czech: biřmovanec m
• French: confirmand (fr) m, confirmande (fr) f
• German: Konfirmand (de) m, Konfirmandin (de) f, Firmling (de) m
• Italian: cresimando (it) m, cresimanda f
• Polish: bierzmowany m, bierzmowana f
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• Serbo-Croatian: krizmanik (sh) m
• Slovene: birmanec m, firmanik m (colloquial)
• Spanish: confirmando (es) m, confirmanda f
• Swedish: konfirmand (sv) c
• Welsh: ymgeisydd (cy) m, ymgeisiwr m

References

• Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical, Frank C Senn, copyright 1997, Augsburg Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN. pp 351, 561

French

Noun

confirmand m (plural confirmands, feminine confirmande)

1. confirmand

Further reading

• “confirmand”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.