'vert

noun

A religious convert.

Meanings

noun'vert (plural 'verts)

plural 'verts

  1. archaiccolloquialA religious convert.
    1 more example

    But, in point of talent, it is the only publication that I know of professing to emanate from Roman Catholics in this country that can be named in the same breath with the leading Protestant reviews or journals. I own frankly, I cannot say this of the Dublin, notwithstanding that its editor is a 'vert, and that some big 'verts write in it.

    1865, Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes, Experiences of a 'Vert
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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