converso
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- noun
- /kənˈvɜrsoʊ/
- Archaic
- In his view, the conversos' financial acumen and high position give them unwarranted power over kings and nobles.
- converso poetry
- converso poems
- attacks on the conversos
Examples
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The author underscores the themes of converso greed and malevolence.
Academic text (1992) -
Throughout the Golden Age, scholars, businessmen, and politicians of converso origin continued to enter the elite despite their known Jewish origins.
Academic text (1996) -
According to the author, wealth and power for the conversos had become ends in themselves.
Academic text (1992) -
Therefore, conversos should be dealt with as individuals, and not as a class.
Academic text (1992) -
At their heart is the argument that the majority of conversos continue to practice Judaism.
Academic text (1992) -
Here we have the combination of repression and tolerance that was typical of the role of conversos in Spanish society.
Academic text (1996) -
Like Avila and like St. Teresa, Perez was a known converso.
Academic text (1996) -
The problems of conversos in sixteenth-century Spain were nothing compared to the persecution of Huguenots in France.
Academic text (1996) -
As a result of the dispersion of Iberian Jews and conversos, Rabbinic doctrines and literature were disseminated throughout Europe.
Academic text (1990) -
In medieval Spain, many conversos publicly converted to Christianity to escape persecution from the Inquisition.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word converso comes from the same root as the English convert, which means 'to turn' or 'to change'. In medieval Spain and Portugal a converso was a Jew or Moor who had 'turned' to Christianity, often to avoid being harmed or forced to leave.