41 adjectives to describe convert

And five is this: your compound's very cramped, where the nunnery could shelter the goodly blooming fellowship of native converts.

Paul took the latter view; declared circumcision to be useless, and freely admitted heathen converts into the Church without it, in opposition to those who virtually insisted on a Gentile becoming a Jew before he could become a Christian.

One element in their preference of Buddhism was certainly the fact that Buddhism accepted all foreigners alikeboth the Toba and the Chinese were "foreign" converts to an essentially Indian religion; whereas the Confucianist Chinese always made the non-Chinese feel that in spite of all their attempts they were still "barbarians" and that only real Chinese could be real Confucianists.

For a while Harry Esmond as a good papist kept apart from these mysteries, but Dr. Tusher, showing him that the prayers read were those of the Church of all ages, he came presently to kneel down with the rest of the household in the parlour; and before a couple of years my lady had made a thorough convert.

[Footnote 1: He was the son of king Bimbisâra, who was one of the first royal converts to Buddhism.

The hardened convert.

This is eagerly believed by the new-comers, and those who are not the "pale converts of experience."

The doctrine probably had its origin in the ignorant preaching of the religion of the Savior by honest but ignorant Indian converts.

Weak converts, with still many remains of heathenism about them, might in this wise have been incurably prejudiced against truths, which, by other modes of teaching,by general and indirect instructions,would probably have been lodged in their minds.

His part in the establishment of the Islamic dominion was no slight one, but at the present he remains simply one of the early enthusiastic converts to Mahomet's evangel, while he enwound himself into the fortunes of his teacher by marrying Rockeya, one of Mahomet's daughters.

If Catholic proselystism succeeded in completely detaching a few individuals or a few families from the Israelitish creed, these ardent converts rekindled the horror of the people against their former co-religionists by revealing some of the precepts of the Talmud.

We may also naturally reflect that there seems to have been something very providential in this letter, considering the debate in which our illustrious convert was so soon engaged; for it was written but about three weeks before his conference with the lady above mentioned in the defence of Christianity, or at least before the appointment of it.

Never had these expert observers seen a genuine convert, but only hypocrites, liars, petty thieves, and grafters.

" Joe was never a reluctant convert to anything.

In the town was an establishment for younger children, chiefly girls, under the charge of a Chinese female convert.

His writings, following up the impulse given by the Bullion controversy, and followed up in their turn by the expositions and comments of my father and McCulloch (whose writings in the Edinburgh Review during those years were most valuable), had drawn general attention to the subject, making at least partial converts in the Cabinet itself; and

Presently Miss Fanny entered from the rear room, her face lighting with pleasure at the sight of her pet convert.

Sophia Hopkins, the niece of Mrs. Causton, wife of Thomas Causton, Esq., chief magistrate of the place, had been a pupil to him to learn French, was a professed convert to his ministry, and become a member of the Church.

The Rev. Jackson Brown delighted in that deep bass voice, and because of his sterling qualities deemed him the most promising convert.

There were some pure Indian converts of both sexes, among whom was the chief prophet of the Ottawasthe aged Chusco.

Too much stress has been laid on the spectacle of missionaries engaging in public controversies, and of semi-savage converts wrangling over rites and ceremonies and discussing points of theology which might well puzzle a Greek metaphysician.

Too much stress has been laid on the spectacle of missionaries engaging in public controversies, and of semi-savage converts wrangling over rites and ceremonies and discussing points of theology which might well puzzle a Greek metaphysician.

But as Atkins was the only sincere convert and of more sense than the rest, my clergyman was earnestly inquiring after him: "Sir," said he, "let us walk out of this labyrinth, & I dare say we shall find this poor man preaching to his wife already.

It is true that rival tribes gloried in belonging to different denominations, and in slighting converts belonging to other churches.

To this fanciful, transcendental, and anarchical theory, Mr. Wright made sundry converts, more or less thorough, including Parker Pillsbury, Wm.

41 adjectives to describe  convert