proselyte

Janet Kitselman also became a proselyte for the history of Waterford, helping to create educational programming at the town’s Second Street School.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021

Mary Frank, the artist, is his friend and fellow solar-cooking proselyte.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019

Christian Angermayer is an unlikely proselyte of psychedelia: The German financier didn’t drink so much as a sip of beer for the first three decades of his life.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 9, 2019

A 52-year-old mother of four whose usual definition of “excess” is a wine spritzer, Ms. Waldman may seem an unlikely proselyte for a second Age of Aquarius.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2017

Zoroaster at length carried his religious system to the royal court at Susa, and made Darius a proselyte, together with most of the great men of the kingdom.

From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous

Some of the recent FDE proselytes, like OpenAI and Anthropic, have raised mind-boggling sums of money on the promise of a technology powerful enough to reshape the entire economy.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 4, 2026

He’s converting new proselytes to the religion of live theater day after day.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2015

Still, proselytes often find that being Paleo quickly becomes a round-the-clock duty.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014

For new converts like Mr. Kagodo, the values of the young proselytes are as compelling as any set of religious beliefs.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2012

At the same time as these conversions, so important by reason of the proselytes ranking highly, we must not forget one more humble, but most touching: that of Mohammad's nurse.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet

The Old Left organized and proselyted, playing its part in bringing about the American welfare state.

From Time Magazine Archive

Legislators, initiative petitions, green paint, dynamite, burglars, proselyted athletes, and a hundred other things have been used in the fight between the two schools ever since the oldest professor can remember.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was a Gentile, but was proselyted to the Jewish religion, believed in the teachings of Paul and was baptized with her household.

From The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is my solemn conviction that I have not proselyted a dozen individuals; for the very conclusive reason that no conversions were necessary.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison

My father's family was proselyted to the Presbyterian faith, and four of them joined that church, namely—my mother Lucy; my brothers Hyrum and Samuel Harrison; and my sister Sophronia.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage

For the last two years we have endeavored to bring our proselyting activities out from under the table.

From Time Magazine Archive

They support themselves while proselyting, and generally serve a two-year period.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time, church representatives canvass likely Northern communities to check on the availability of jobs and housing and the outlook for proselyting.

From Time Magazine Archive

How can the Catholic Church best use radio as a tool in proselyting?

From Time Magazine Archive

"Don't start proselyting to-day. To-day's going to be bad enough as it is."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway