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Converso

noun
1.
(medieval Spain and Portugal) a Jew or Moor who professed to convert to Christianity in order to avoid persecution or expulsion.





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"Converso" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hunni successerunt, atque imprimis Pannoniam tenuerunt. Neque enim Honorius viribus ad resistendum in tantis difficultatibus destitutus, prorsus eos prohibere potuit, sed meliore consilio, animo ad pacem converso, foedus cum eis, datis acceptisque obsidibus fecit; ex quibus qui dati sunt, AEtius, qui etiam Alarico tributus fuerat, praecipue memoratur. How AEtius was hostage to the Goths and Hunns is related by Frigeridus, who when he had mentioned that Theodosius Emperor of the East ...
— Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John • Isaac Newton
... the moment he should perceive that the heretics were treated with. "Quod si ipse summus copiarum Dux, vel de pace vel de rerum compositione quidquam Catholicae religioni damnosum praesentiret; [Pius V.] imperavit e vestigio aut converso itinere in Italiam remearet, aut ad Catholicum exercitum in Belgio cum haereticis bellantem sese ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird


Words linked to "Converso" :   convert, Marrano


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