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proselytism|ˈprɒsɪlaɪt-, -lɪtɪz(ə)m|
[In sense 1 f. proselyte n. + -ism: so F. prosélytisme (1721 in Hatz.-Darm.); in sense 2 from proselytize.]
1. The fact of becoming or being a proselyte; the state or condition of a proselyte.
a1660Hammond Serm. Gen. xxxi. 13 Wks. 1684 IV. 500 Spiritual Proselytism, to which the Jew was wont to be wash'd, as the Christian is baptized. 1683Hickes Case Inf. Baptism 59 Capable of Proselytism, or entring into the Covenant after the Jewish manner. 1823Lingard Hist. Eng. V. 364 The converts laboured to diffuse the new light with all the fervour of proselytism. 1844― Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. i. 23.
2. The practice of proselytizing.
1763Hume Hist. Eng. (1825) VIII. lxxi. 290 Such was his zeal for proselytism, that..he plainly stopped not at toleration and equality. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 226 The spirit of proselytism attends this spirit of fanaticism. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXV. 59 The very word proselytism was scarcely known to the English language, until it was added to it a few years ago by the barbarous jargon of Catholicism. 1870Daily News 16 Apr., If any religionists..persist in making day schools engines of proselytism. |