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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
proselytise .
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Examples
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Now she is fully inculcated in the game's lore and, like a Catholic convert or an ex-smoker, proselytises in a way that those of us who grew up with rugby league probably would not.
Clare Balding the convert is fully tuned in to The Greatest Game 2010
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No wonder he stays silent about molecular physics and screens out hostile questioners and audiences whenever he proselytises in public.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Anyone who proselytises on behalf of the enemy in a time of war can hardly be described as 'perspicacious' regardless of their race or religion (or lack thereof).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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No wonder he stays silent about molecular physics and screens out hostile questioners and audiences whenever he proselytises in public.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Having abandoned the religion of his youth, he now seeks inspiration from evolution and proselytises the unwashed with evangelical fervour.
Dawkins Dogma. Looking for meaning in all the wrong places. « Anglican Samizdat 2008
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Having abandoned the religion of his youth, he now seeks inspiration from evolution and proselytises the unwashed with evangelical fervour.
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So you can imaging my distress in seeing an organisation that supposedly proselytises for secular values, free-though and free-speech putting ample effort into its proselytism for the cause of conspiracy-minded, fact-neutered, logically fallacious, idiocy.
Planet Atheism 2009
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Among the better known of the Sangh Parivar organisations are the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (world Hindu council) and Bajrang Dal (violent vigilantes named after the monkey warrior-god Hanuman), Vidya Bharati (which runs thousands of Hindutva-oriented schools) and Adivasi Kalyan Ashram (which actively proselytises among indigenous people).
Communalism Watch 2008
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As a practising Jehovah's Witness, he not only proselytises door-to-door - "Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly they're really cool about it," - but he also subscribes to some of the religion's more socially conservative precepts.
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