proselyte
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After a time he came to Cracow, where he got acquainted with the L.J.S. missionary Hoff, who gave him to read "The Confession of a Proselyte," by Fr�nkel, and also the New Testament.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
Proselyte, pros′e-līt, n. one who has come over from one religion or opinion to another: a convert, esp. one who left the heathen and joined a Jewish community.—v.t. to convert.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Every Proselyte is like a new Argument for the Establishment of his Faith.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Thus we find, too, modern American Jews formulating Articles of Faith as a Proselyte Confession.
From Judaism by Abrahams, Israel
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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