proselyte
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Janet Kitselman also became a proselyte for the history of Waterford, helping to create educational programming at the town’s Second Street School.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021
Mary Frank, the artist, is his friend and fellow solar-cooking proselyte.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
Christian Angermayer is an unlikely proselyte of psychedelia: The German financier didn’t drink so much as a sip of beer for the first three decades of his life.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 9, 2019
"I am a big believer in the potency of artistic endeavor at its highest. To proselyte through your storytelling is not good storytelling."
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2015
“The Voice of Warning to all Nations” of the zealous proselyte Parly Pratt, formerly a Campbellite preacher, exercised a great influence in spreading the sect.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
Some of the recent FDE proselytes, like OpenAI and Anthropic, have raised mind-boggling sums of money on the promise of a technology powerful enough to reshape the entire economy.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 4, 2026
He’s converting new proselytes to the religion of live theater day after day.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2015
Still, proselytes often find that being Paleo quickly becomes a round-the-clock duty.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014
For new converts like Mr. Kagodo, the values of the young proselytes are as compelling as any set of religious beliefs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2012
Roger North tells us that “they admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced, for it was a main end of their institutions to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youth newly come to town.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
Legislators, initiative petitions, green paint, dynamite, burglars, proselyted athletes, and a hundred other things have been used in the fight between the two schools ever since the oldest professor can remember.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Old Left organized and proselyted, playing its part in bringing about the American welfare state.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another group of persons also large potentially and a serious menace when proselyted by the apostles of rebellion, were the squatters and trespassers who were occupying land to which they had no lawful right.
From The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. (Glenn Danford) Bradley
No way of finding out how it started, or even how the new members are proselyted.
From Brink of Madness by Walter J. Sheldon
Mr. Oddington and Mr. Wotherspoon say he was proselyted by Princeton.
From Dan Merrithew by J. V. McFall
How can the Catholic Church best use radio as a tool in proselyting?
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile the Unitarian Association conducted its own investigation, exonerated Fritchman of using his position for "proselyting in behalf of the Communist Party cause."
From Time Magazine Archive
For the last two years we have endeavored to bring our proselyting activities out from under the table.
From Time Magazine Archive
They support themselves while proselyting, and generally serve a two-year period.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Don't start proselyting to-day. To-day's going to be bad enough as it is."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Vocabulary lists containing proselyte
The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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