proselytize
verb (used with or without object)
to convert or attempt to convert as a proselyte; recruit to a religion or other belief system.
proselytise
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a variation of
proselytize.
Example Sentences
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As word spread, more people yearned to proselytise the Bikram method.
From Economist ● Jul. 4, 2018
There is another view, and that is that Christians certainly have a hard time in North Korea, but they are tolerated providing they don't proselytise.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2015
Hayley took to Livejournal to agonise over a line from their breakout hit Misery Business, "God does it feel so good", though she refused to proselytise.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013
Then, as now, he was keen to proselytise for his country's music and arts.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2012
The sects which proselytise in Rome are the American Methodists, Baptists, and Wesleyans; many of the better educated preferring to all these the native Waldensian Church.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
