conversion

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When he entered Waterville College--the first student ever admitted there not hopefully pious--his fellow-students, impressed with this fact, solemnly engaged with each other, unknown to him, to remember him in their supplications, until their prayers for his conversion should be answered.

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  1. noun The act of converting.
  2. noun The state of being converted.
  3. noun A change in which one adopts a new religion, faith, or belief.
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  • When he entered Waterville College—the first student ever admitted there not hopefully pious—his fellow-students, impressed with this fact, solemnly engaged with each other, unknown to him, to remember him in their supplications, until their prayers for his conversion should be answered. —  Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons
  • The calming reassurance of her conversion was an ever-present joy.
  • All the shames, all the burning regrets, all the stinging compunctions of conscience I had known on coming out of such debauches before my conversion were almost as joy compared with the misery which preyed upon my heart then. —  Fifteen Years in Hell
  • In the providence of God, my conversion was the beginning of a great revival work in my parish, which continued without much interruption for nearly three years. —  From Death into Life
  • This true probability of conversion is what we call the conversion rate, and we assume that it's fixed. law of large numbers we know that when sampling a very large number of visitors, the measured conversion rate will approach the true probability of conversion. —  Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com
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  1. Middle English conversioun, religious conversion, from Old French conversion, from Latin conversiō, conversiōn-, a turning around, from conversus, past participle of convertere, to turn around; see convert.

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  1. = French conversion = Provencal conversio = Spanish conversion = Portuguese conversão = Italian conversione, from Latin conversio(n-), from convertere, past participle conversus, convert: see convert, v.
 

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