Proselyte Definition

prŏsə-līt
proselytes
noun

A new convert to a doctrine or religion.

American Heritage
A person who has been converted from one religion to another, or from one belief, sect, party, etc. to another.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb

To proselytize (a person).

American Heritage

To engage in proselytization.

American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Proselyte

Noun

Singular:
proselyte
Plural:
proselytes

Origin of Proselyte

  • From Middle English proselite, from Late Latin proselutus (proselytus, “proselyte, alien resident"), from Ancient Greek προσηλυτος (prosÄ“lutos, “newcomer, convert") (from πρό (pro, “to, towards") and λυτός (lutos)), translation of Hebrew גר (ger) in the Septuagint translation of the Torah (e.g., Exodus 12:49); also used in Matthew 23:15, Acts 2:10, Acts 6:5.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English proselite from Old French from Late Latin prosēlytus from Greek prosēlutos stranger, proselyte pros- pros- ēluth- aorist tense stem of erkhesthai to go

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Proselyte Sentence Examples

  • Thus the proselyte is said in the Talmud to resemble a child and must bathe in the name of God.

  • At his funeral obsequies the celebrated proselyte Aquila (Akylas Onkelos), reviving an ancient custom, burned costly materials to the value of seventy minae.

  • The uncircumcized proselyte was similarly excluded from the Paschal meal on which the Eucharist was largely modelled, even though it may not have been in any way a continuation of the same.

  • Symmachus, according to Eusebius and Jerome, was an Ebionite; Epiphanius represents him (very improbably) as a Samaritan who became a Jewish proselyte.

  • For a year (June 68 - June 69) he held his hand and watched events, until the robber-bands of Simon Bar-Giora (son of the proselyte) required his attention.

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