Proselyte

n.	1.	A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte. - Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained proselyte he makes. - Cowper.
v. t.	1.	To convert to some religion, opinion, or system; to bring over. [imp. & p. p. Proselyted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Proselyting.]

Noun

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proselyte - a new convert; especially a gentile converted to Judaism

Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, apostate, apostle, backslider, believer, bolter, catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, collaborationist, collaborator, communicant, convert, daily communicant, defector, deserter, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, fanatic, fifth columnist, follower, good Christian, mugwump, neophyte, pietist, quisling, receiver, recidivist, recreant, religionist, renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, runagate, saint, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, separatist, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, theist, traitor, truster, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, votary, zealot

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