proselytizer
- a word derived from proselytize.
Example Sentences
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Colbert is not a proselytizer — he is, more than anything else, a comedian.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
He’d become a kind of a proselytizer for conflict resolution, so go figure what's possible.
From Salon ● May 26, 2024
He was highly intelligent, obsessively curious and profoundly sensitive, a born proselytizer who “saw political events in terms of moral absolutes” and demanded consequences for abuses of power.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
The most prolific proselytizer for the Italian-beef gospel is the Chicago-based chain Portillo’s, which now has outlets in California, Arizona, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida, and has plans to open in Texas.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
As Regina had proselytized all her life for various causes—always liberal and humanistic ones—so, too, Bobby had become a proselytizer.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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