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/ˈpɹɒsəlaɪt/ · noun
One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism..
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
That evening the young nun lay exhausted between life and death in a brain fever, while all Naples was ringing with the faith, beauty, and fervour of the English proselyte.
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Proselyte means One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism..
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
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