proselytessn.
/ˌprɒsᵻlʌɪˈtɛs/, /ˈprɒsᵻlʌɪtᵻs/, U.S. /ˈprɑsəˌlaɪdəs/ Now rare (historical in later use).
A female proselyte; spec. a female convert to Judaism.
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society > faith > sect > Judaism > [noun] > person > convert
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proselytess1621
proselyte of the covenant1703
proselyte of the gate1879
society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > [noun] > one who undergoes
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proselytess1879
society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] > one who has undergone
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converse1388
convert1561
convertitec1592
convertist1611
missionary1834
mihanere1840
vert1864
proselytess1879
1621 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses & Bk. Psalmes Deut. xxii. 19 A virgin an Israelitesse..an heathen that was become a proselytesse..was free from the mulct.
1711 J. Gale Refl. Wall's Hist. Infant-baptism 356 A woman baptiz'd or wash'd, tho for uncleanness only, does nevertheless thereby become a proselytess or Jewess.
1873 R. Jamieson Comm. on Old & New Test. 359 Nero the emperor having divorced Octavia, and married Poppœa, a Jewish proselytess.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxv. 487 Among the women sat a Lydian proselytess.
1993 L. F. Feldman Jew & Gentile in Anc. World ix. 338 We have the statement..of the second-century Rabbi Eleazar ben Zadok that ‘all rush to marry a proselytess’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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