proselytized

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Muslims ruled large parts of India from the early 13th to the 19th century, and during this era Muslim preachers and Sufi mystics actively proselytized for Islam.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

As prisons filled and pastors proselytized inside, some gang members began converting to evangelicalism, a growing movement in El Salvador that preached the power of repentance.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023

X says she was not proselytized, let alone "radicalized," by a Muslim chaplain or anyone else.

From Salon • May 8, 2022

He proselytized about police and power, quoting icons more typically associated with social-justice activism: Saul Alinsky, the self-described “professional radical,” and Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021

She proselytized about suffrage to anyone who would listen and recruited volunteers to help with the work.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling