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neophyte
/ ˌniːəʊˈfɪtɪk; ˈniːəʊˌfaɪt /
noun
- a person newly converted to a religious faith
- RC Church a novice in a religious order
- a novice or beginner
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Derived Forms
- neophytic, adjective
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Other Words From
- ne·o·phyt·ic [nee-, uh, -, fit, -ik], ne·o·phyt·ish [nee, -, uh, -fahy-tish], adjective
- ne·o·phyt·ism [nee, -, uh, -fahy-tiz-, uh, m], noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of neophyte1
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Example Sentences
For the aficionado or the neophyte, Comics is a useful overview of a richly creative period in a burgeoning art.
Reagan is a political neophyte in a fairly conventional campaign for governor of California.
Southerland was a political neophyte who owned a string of funeral homes when he won his seat in 2010.
The other thing the film got wrong was the premise that David was a neophyte, better suited for interviewing the Bee Gees.
I will confess, with some shame, that I am a Saunders neophyte.
Assarac smiled with the good-humoured superiority of an adept condescending to the crude intelligence of a neophyte.
Beladon looked on his chief with the admiration of a neophyte for some grand professor of his art.
Selina, in the drawing-room, diligently fingered and classed brown-black pressed weeds of her neophyte's botany-folios.
"Otherwise I should have preferred starving to coming here," answered the laconic neophyte.
But if, on the one hand, we had lost the neophyte's fire, we had perhaps gained a little in tolerance.
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