proselyte

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the Jew forgetting the very word proselyte, the German forgetting his anthropometric variations, and the Italian forgetting everything, are obsessed by the singular purity of their blood, and the danger of contamination the mere continuance of other races involves.

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  1. noun A new convert to a doctrine or religion.
  2. transitive verb To proselytize (a person).
  3. intransitive verb To engage in proselytization.

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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." —  Latest Articles
  • God bade Moses impress upon the Jews to repulse no heathen should he desire conversion, but never to accept an Amalekite as a proselyte. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • I enter Islam as a new proselyte, and I repeat the profession of the Moslem faith. —  Mystics and Saints of Islam
  • But the Jews had no such commission--a proselyte needed more evidences of assent than simply to bawl out a short formula of words, and he who refused to become a proselyte was no object of persecution. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
  • [57 Among the Hebrews themselves there are those who do not look upon circumcision in a favorable light, but on something that has served its time in its own day, and within the past year a proselyte has been accepted into one of the New York synagogues without previous or subsequent circumcision, these reformed Jews looking upon adult circumcision as too painful an operation to be gone through, as they claim, unnecessarily. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
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  1. 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.

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  1. Formerly also proselite; from Middle English proselite, from Old French proselite, French prosélyte = Spanish prosélito = Portuguese proselyto = Italian proselito, from Late Latin proselytus, from Greek προσήλυτος, a convert, proselyte, literally one who has come over to a party, from προσέρχεσ, σ1θαι (2d aorist προσῆλθον), come to, from πρός, to, toward, + ἒρχεσθαι (2d aorist ἐλθεῑν), come.
  2. from proselyte, n.
 

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