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Meanings of proselytise in English

Spanish
hacer prosélitos

Convert to another faith or religion.

hacer prosélitos
Usage of proselytise in English
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So it did not scruple to persecute as well as to proselytise.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
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One of the rules of Wicca is that you cannot proselytise.
Independent.ie
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For it is a remarkable feature of human natural history, the desire to proselytise.
The Open Air
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Now, Taylor sees an opportunity to further proselytise his views.
The Guardian
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Less successful are tracks like Butterfly Man where Kieran yields to the temptation to proselytise.
The Irish Times
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Our object is not to subvert them: you are not sent among those Churches to proselytise.
Turkey: a Past and a Future
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It was this, more than anything else, that held him back from the ambition to proselytise.
The Captives
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Chang could be a Zen master, whose vocation is to proselytise for the futility of revenge.
The Guardian
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But at no point was the government prepared actually to proselytise about the merits of the EU.
The Guardian
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I know what it's like to proselytise.
The Guardian
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Pappa, I'm not going to proselytise.
The girl with the dragon tattoo
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He does not seek to proselytise.
Memories and Portraits
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We ought to make no attempt to proselytise among the Fiji natives, who have been evangelised by the Wesleyans.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
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We don't proselytise. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The WERS provides clothing, bedding and household essentials to refugees and asylum seekers.
The Guardian
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So we can only proselytise fresh meat, the convictions of putrid meat begin to be too strong for us.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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Jung, who presented the project at the Oslo Freedom Forum recently, was stressed that his aim was not to proselytise.
The Guardian
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Translations for proselytise
Proselytise through the time