converso
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conversos
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Duarte, who lived from 1610 to around 1678, belonged to the converso community of Antwerp—Jews who fled Portugal and Spain and converted to Catholicism.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019
De Carvajal was a converso, forced to adopt Catholicism but suspected of clandestinely practicing Jewish rituals.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
The proof of this is that the “right” whale of the northern hemisphere is never found in the southern hemisphere, or e converso.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
In the States where the dollar is 3/8 of a pound, this Unit will be 25/96 of a pound, and the operation must be to multiply by 25, and divide by 96, et e converso.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
This answer was given by a fra converso, or lay brother, whose accent told plainly that he was a raw contadino, and whose dull glance implied no curiosity.
From Romola by George Eliot
The inquisitors then ventured further afield to enforce the pope’s dictates, particularly against conversos, Jewish converts, and secondarily, Christianized Muslims, Protestants and freethinkers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2012
Most such villages are inhabited by Indians, but these were Europeans, with Spanish surnames typical of conversos.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2011
They are probably the descendants of conversos, Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal who were forced to convert to Christianity in the 1490s but were nonetheless persecuted in the Inquisition.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2011
I’ve heard Father say this many times, even though in our own family there are converts, called conversos.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Now I realize there are the ghosts of those who left and the ghosts of the conversos too.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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