1826 Edinb. Advertiser 18 Apr. 243/2 It was the opinion of the Established Church of Ireland, that..no attempt at proselytising should be made.

1881 Monier Williams in 19th Cent. Mar. 504 Proselytising has never been attempted by the Zoroastrians since their arrival on Indian soil.

1955 Times 15 July 7/2 In present conditions it seems difficult for any Protestant Church to engage in proselytizing.

1976 N. Rees in Listener 9 Sept. 304/3 The toe-curling pop proselytising of Pause for Thought.

1995 Laywitness Apr. 7/2 He has been able to convey the broad humanism of the Catholic faith, thus rejecting any approach to the apostolate that would confine it to narrow polemics or cheap proselytizing.

1788 W. Brown Ess. Folly Scepticism i. 76 There is not a more proselytizing sect than his in the whole world.

1797 J. Wilde Seq. Addr. to Soc. Friends of People 51 In the combat against regicide, and the loose given by proselytising power to all crime.

1828 Carlyle in For. Rev. & Cont. Misc. II. 439 The influence of this proselytizing bigotry.

1842 E. B. Pusey Crisis Eng. Church 98 In our own day, any exhibition of ourselves as a proselytizing Church would unsettle many of our own children.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. iii. 269 A proselytising religion was a new phenomenon.

1926 W. Lewis Creatures of Habit in Cal. Mod. Lett. 3 30 On behalf of the multitude, the millionaire-class full of ‘revolutionary’ zeal, bohemianize themselves with a proselytizing intolerance.

1942 G. M. Trevelyan Eng. Social Hist. xvi. 494 The various Non-conformist sects,..reinspired to a fresh proselytizing activity, undertook the mission of Christianity in the new industrial districts.

2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names vi. 186 A proselytising sect that entrapped him, friendless and disoriented, on campus at Berkeley, California.