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US
/ˈniəˌfaɪt/
]
NOUN
- a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist
- a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously
- any new participant in some activity
How To Use neophyte In A Sentence
- Just as the new convert to Islam sees the work of God in all things, the Marxist neophyte is tempted to understand all human activity through the lens of the base/superstructure model.
- When his neophyte cast pull it off, their exchanges have an appealingly edgy authenticity.
- Two men recently died, an ambitious neophyte politician and his political rival, in a bizarre shooting in New York's City Council chambers.
- In hunting for quail, it is called neophyte, sophomoric, ticketing, hunting accident. Bringing the Spirit of a Vietnam Vet up to Speed on Iraq
- The tendency to start forming another church ‘is one of the primary sins that besets radical Christian neophytes.’
- As for the future, Washington offers the professional neophyte only his best wishes and a bit of advice he got from his own dad years ago.
- Veteran extras warn neophytes to beware the purges.
- He returned it with a high looping sidespin shot, the kind that could utterly befuddle a neophyte but would be a lost point against an experienced player. Robot Adept
- The actual English teaching that gets done in this situation may be minimal, while the neophyte teacher is busy struggling for survival.
- The fact that he doesn't understand how federal legislation gets introduced, debated and enacted is amazing, but then again, we knew this guy was a neophyte coming in. ez WH senior aide: Obama considering major speech on health care
