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Definition of Neophytes
1. neophyte [n] - See also: neophyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neophytes
Literary usage of Neophytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"After a course of instructions more or less long, during which period they were
fed at the missionary establishments, the neophytes were permitted to return ..."
2. The Missions and Missionaries of California by Zephyrin Engelhardt (1913)
"The Friars Will not Stultify Themselves to Aid Echeandia.—neophytes Seduced by
Echeandia.—neophytes not Slaves.—False Charges of the Ex-Governor. ..."
3. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, William Nemos, Frances Fuller Victor (1886)
"Missionaries, neophytes, pagans, soldiers, and settlers, each received sympathy,
... The neophytes were the weakest class and received the most sympathy; ..."
4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"not calculated to advance the neophytes in civilization. They were, perhaps, more
regularly fed and a little better clothed than in their aboriginal state; ..."
5. The Bay of San Francisco: The Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and Its by Lewis Publishing Company (1892)
"In the course of the first year Father Serra had gathered a small number of
neophytes, and hoped for greater success in the near future. ..."
6. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1891)
"... partly because they could not do otherwise, and partly because it was a politic
measure for securing better control of the neophytes. ..."
7. Maori Lore: The Traditions of the Maori People, with the More Important of by George Grey (1904)
"Then, leading these neophytes to the nearest water, which might have been a stream
or a lake, they were sent into it. Standing on the bank, the priests took ..."
8. Spanish Institutions of the Southwest by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1891)
"... it was a politic measure for securing better control of the neophytes.
Among the neophytes of the California mission, we find the continuance ..."
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