proselyte
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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
"I am a big believer in the potency of artistic endeavor at its highest. To proselyte through your storytelling is not good storytelling."
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2015
Tradition has it that she there became a proselyte to the Jewish faith.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
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
In this despair of their ancestral religions many piously disposed Gentiles turned to Judaism for spiritual help; and the synagogue was surrounded in the Greek cities by a circle of earnest proselytes.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
The Old Left organized and proselyted, playing its part in bringing about the American welfare state.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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The first persons proselyted by the Spanish and French missionaries were Indians.
From The History of the Negro Church by Woodson, Carter Godwin
Another group of persons also large potentially and a serious menace when proselyted by the apostles of rebellion, were the squatters and trespassers who were occupying land to which they had no lawful right.
From The Story of the Pony Express by Bradley, Glenn D. (Glenn Danford)
With the fiery zeal of the pioneer of a religious movement he preached in season and out of season his new faith, and proselyted with success even among those who scoffed.
From The One Woman by Dixon, Thomas
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
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How can the Catholic Church best use radio as a tool in proselyting?
From Time Magazine Archive
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Meanwhile the Unitarian Association conducted its own investigation, exonerated Fritchman of using his position for "proselyting in behalf of the Communist Party cause."
From Time Magazine Archive
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For the last two years we have endeavored to bring our proselyting activities out from under the table.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"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
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Vocabulary lists containing proselyte
The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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