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Discipleship vs Disciple - What's the difference?

discipleship | disciple |

Disciple is a related term of discipleship.



As nouns the difference between discipleship and disciple

is that discipleship is the condition of being a disciple while disciple is a person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.

As a verb disciple is

to train, educate, teach.

discipleship

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being a disciple
  • (countable) The period during which a person is a disciple

    • disciple

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
  • An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
  • * Holy Bible, Matthew 9:10 (King James Version)
    • And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=4, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
  • (Ireland) Miserable-looking creature of a man.

    • Related terms

    * discipleship * disciplic * discipline

    Synonyms

    * student

    See also

    * apostle

    Verb

    (discipl)
  • (obsolete) To train, educate, teach.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
    • fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled [...].

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