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Lynd writes as a scholar as well as a proselyter, and his slim volume valuably documents the American tradition of dissent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence the fanatic can exist only in a crowd, from inward weakness anxious for outward confirmation; and, therefore, an eager proselyter and intolerant.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

"I seen in your face that Dyer, now a bishop, was the proselyter who ruined Milly Erne."

From Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane

Our minister ain't no kind of a proselyter, Seems as if he didn't care how folks got to heaven so long as they got there!

From Story of Waitstill Baxter by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

An' I tried to get on the trail of that proselyter.

From Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane