The fireplace also heated water for the godsibs to wash their hands with as they were instructed by the rubric to do before leaving the church.

[…] the Bumgardners' maid, with Preston and Penelope in tow, was exchanging defamatory gossip with her godsib Ofelia Gomez, Luke Regan's scullion.

The Vicosino then went to his godsib and then to the Cornell Peru Project field director for confirmation of […]

After a man's kin and godsibs, the next allegiance is to his paisanos (fellow countrymen) or […]

[…] to members of their own family, intimates (especially their godsibs), and ideally the priest, who usually is too busy to accept all invitations.

[…] where 34 % of testators who mentioned godchildren were homonymous with those godsibs.

The most important people in the baptismal party that processed from Newbold Revel to the church porch were the three people who had undertaken to support the baby's introduction into the Christian faith. […] Godsibs, as godparents were called, were chosen with care and took their responsibilities seriously. […] since a baby was almost always given the Christian name of the most important godsib, his name must provide a clue.

Holinshed's Chronicle says: 'James Earl of Desmond being suffered and not controlled, during the government of Richard Duke of York his godsib and of Thomas Earl of Kildare his kinsman, did put upon the King's subjects […]'

Godsib

Meaning

Noun