proselytization

pros·e·ly·tize (pr

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v. pros·e·ly·tized, pros·e·ly·tiz·ing, pros·e·ly·tiz·es

v.intr.

1. To induce someone to convert to one's own religious faith.

2. To induce someone to join one's own political party or to espouse one's doctrine.

v.tr.

To convert (a person) from one belief, doctrine, cause, or faith to another.

prose·ly·ti·zation (-t

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n) n.

prose·ly·tizer n.

proselytize, proselytise [ˈprɒsɪlɪˌtaɪz]

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) to convert (someone) from one religious faith to another

proselytization , proselytisation n

proselytizer , proselytiser n

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Verb

proselytize - convert to another faith or religion

proselytise

convert - cause to adopt a new or different faith; "The missionaries converted the Indian population"

proselytize

verb

1. convert, win over, spread the gospel to, evangelize to, make converts of, bring someone into the fold, bring someone to God Christian groups were arrested for trying to proselytize people.

2. promote, support, champion, back, present, further, suggest, advance, spread, urge, boost, sponsor, foster, advocate, endorse, proclaim, preach, peddle, espouse, propound, propagandize a Scottish lawyer who proselytized these ideas

Translations

proselytize [ˈprɒsɪlɪtaɪz]

A. VI → ganar prosélitos

B. VT [+ person] → convertir

proselytize [ˈprɒsɪlɪtaɪz] proselytise (British)

vi → faire du prosélytisme

vt (= convert) → convertir
prose writer n → prosateur m

proselytize

vt → bekehren

vi → Leute bekehren

proselytize [ˈprɒsɪlɪˌtaɪz] vi (frm) → fare del proselitismo

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Under an overly broad WRFA, employees could claim a right to preach in the workplace, and it would be very difficult to protect co-workers, patients, clients, customers and others from religious harassment or proselytization," said Aaron Schuham, director of legislative affairs for Americans United.

Whose conscience counts? Religious Right forces want pharmacists' ... by Bathija, Sandhya / Church & State

His central argument is that the staging that the movements intended for their own followers tended to become intertwined with the mimetic staging of each others symbols and rhetoric that were enacted for purposes of proselytization or subversion.

Weimar radicals; Nazis and communists between authenticity and ... by Reference & Research Book News

Spokesmen for Islam in Europe do not, of course, lack a capacity to invoke the protection of these same human rights principles for themselves, but upon examination it often turns out that what is being demanded is protection for the freedom to implement shariah: a somewhat ironical position, one may feel, given the intransigence of shariah precisely on the matter of renunciation of faith, with concomitant bans on Christian proselytization of Muslims in Muslim countries.

The penalties of apostasy in Malaysia by Kershaw, Roger / Contemporary Review

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