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Proselytise

verb
1.
Convert to another faith or religion.  Synonym: proselytize.






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"Proselytise" Quotes from Famous Books



... Anatolia and Armenia. They had opened 163 Protestant churches and 450 schools, they established hospitals, and in every possible way spread civilisation in a country where the spirit of the governing class was barbarism. It was not their object to proselytise. 'Let the Armenian remain an Armenian if he will,' so ran the instructions from which I have already quoted, 'the Greek a Greek, the Nestorian a Nestorian, the Oriental an Oriental,' and in the same wise and open-minded spirit they encouraged native Protestant Churches which ...
— Crescent and Iron Cross • E. F. Benson



Words linked to "Proselytise" :   advocate, convert, preach



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