proselyte
noun
a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
proselyter
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a word derived from
proselyte.
Example Sentences
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Lynd writes as a scholar as well as a proselyter, and his slim volume valuably documents the American tradition of dissent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our minister ain't no kind of a proselyter, Seems as if he didn't care how folks got to heaven so long as they got there!
From Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Hence the fanatic can exist only in a crowd, from inward weakness anxious for outward confirmation; and, therefore, an eager proselyter and intolerant.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I seen in your face that Dyer, now a bishop, was the proselyter who ruined Milly Erne."
From Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Only twice in ten years did I find a trace of that mysterious man who had visited the proselyter at my home village.
From Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
