Proselyte is noun.
According to Merriam Webster dictionary the word proselyte means: A new convert (as to a faith or cause).
The word proselyte was used by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page 9 of the class handout entitled, “Young Goodman Brown.”
Hawthorne wrote, “And there stood the proselytes, beneath the canopy of fire.”
Goodman Brown and a young woman whose face was covered, but whom he later realized was his beloved Faith were the proselytes. They were the ones who were newly converted to join the fiend, (devil) worshippers.
