proselytizeverb [ I ]
disapproving formal UK usually proselytise uk/ˈprɒs.əl.ɪ.taɪz/us/ˈprɑː.sə.lɪ.taɪz/to try to persuade someone to change their religious or political beliefs or way of living to your own:
He was also remarkable for the proselytizing zeal with which he wrote his political pamphlets.
Television has provided the evangelists with yet another platform for their proselytizing.
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Religious practices
- agarbatti
- anoint
- baptize
- bless
- celebrate
- confess
- confession
- flagellate
- genuflect
- genuflection
- go into/enter the church idiom
- hadj
- mortification of the flesh idiom
- observance
- pilgrimage
- purdah
- reborn
- revival
- revival meeting
- veil
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proselytizer
noun [ C ] formal UK usually proselytiser uk/ˌprɒs.əl.ɪˈtaɪ.zər/us/ˌprɑː.sə.lɪˈtaɪ.zɚ/