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Definition of Proselytizes
1. proselytize [v] - See also: proselytize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proselytizes
Literary usage of Proselytizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Presbyterian Foreign Missions: An Account of the Foreign Missions of the by Robert Elliott Speer (1901)
"The Roman Catholic religion proselytizes from the middle down to the lowest ...
The Protestant religion chiefly proselytizes those of higher position rather ..."
2. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1890)
"We may say that the English nobility grows, but we should never say that it
proselytizes, and it would be a mere playing with words if, because Brahman- ism ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1879)
"... among themselves; and the elder communion has its emissaries in the heart of
the body, which in fact proselytizes for that which it seems to repudiate. ..."
4. Lectures on Architecture and Painting: Delivered at Edinburgh, in November, 1853 by John Ruskin (1887)
"Religion proselytizes by love, superstition by war; religion teaches by example,
superstition by persecution. Religion gave granite shrine to the Egyptian, ..."
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