Neophyte
['niːə(ʊ)faɪt] or ['niəfaɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously.
Typist: Portia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism.
(n.) A novice; a tyro; a beginner in anything.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Convert, proselyte, CATECHUMEN.[2]. Beginner, tyro, pupil.
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Definition
n. a new convert one newly baptised or admitted to the priesthood or to a monastery a novice: a tyro or beginner.—adj. newly admitted or entered on office.—n. Nē′ophytism.
Typist: Lolita
Examples
- You have no right to preach to me, you neophyte, that have not passed the porch of life, and are absolutely unacquainted with its mysteries. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He placed himself in front of Sergeant Cuff, and put his hands behind him, after the approved fashion of a neophyte who is examined in his catechism. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Her whole soul was possessed by the fact that a fuller life was opening before her: she was a neophyte about to enter on a higher grade of initiation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I therefore have not come to the consideration of Mr. Carstone as a neophyte. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That we, the neophytes, might have an excess of light shining upon us all at once, orders were given to let out Twenty Eight. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Editor: Maggie