ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Proselyte

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈpɹɒsəlaɪt/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Proselyte is a noun meaning One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism.

Meaning

One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism.

More Meanings

  1. (transitive) To proselytize.

Example Sentences

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.
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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Related dictionary entries include baptism, proselytess, giyoret, synagogue-goer, gentilizing, synagoguegoer.

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