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   Pros·e·lyte

   /ˈpräsəˌlīt/

   

   noun

   • 1. a person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another.
   • ▪ a Gentile who has converted to Judaism.

   verb

   • 1. another term for proselytize US

   Word Origin late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek prosēluthos ‘stranger, convert’, from prosēluth-, past stem of proserkhesthai ‘approach’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. proselytism noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

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