proselytism
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Supporters of this approach say that secularism, especially in schools but also in sports clubs, is crucial for youth to be free from pressures of proselytism and radicalization.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024
"His alleged proselytism is not an excuse for kidnapping. If he did anything wrong, he should have the right as any citizen to trial."
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2017
Early Christianity, he points out, didn’t expand through arms or proselytism “but through attraction—it was attractive to become a Christian.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2016
“In concentrating on would-be jihadists you prevent proselytism, but you also contribute to eventually creating a network that did not exist before among these inmates.”
From Newsweek • Feb. 19, 2015
But what struck me was that, contrary to what one is made to expect, I did not find among the clergy that aggressive and ostentatious proselytism.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
