converso

American  

[kuhn-ver-soh] / kənˈvɛr soʊ /

noun

conversos plural

1. History/Historical. a Jewish person, especially in Spain or Portugal, who was converted, often forcibly, to Christianity during the Middle Ages.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• conversos
  plural

Example Sentences

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

But not è converso, from the Spanish needle to the Spanish Pike.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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 Eliot, George

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 Semmes, Raphael