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proselyte noun [ ˈprɒsɪlʌɪt ]

• a person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another.
Similar: convert, new believer, catechumen, recruit, neophyte, newcomer, initiate, tyro, novice,

proselyte verb

• another term for proselytize.
Origin: late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek prosēluthos ‘stranger, convert’, from prosēluth-, past stem of proserkhesthai ‘approach’.


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