proselyte

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

A 52-year-old mother of four whose usual definition of “excess” is a wine spritzer, Ms. Waldman may seem an unlikely proselyte for a second Age of Aquarius.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2017

Enthusiasm—predilection to a favourite but persecuted system—may induce an ardent proselyte not only to deceive others, but unwittingly to deceive himself.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

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

Here Saul and Barnabas remained during a year, they there made a great number of converts; it was there that the proselytes first took the name of Christians.

From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Peter Annet

The Old Left organized and proselyted, playing its part in bringing about the American welfare state.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 first persons proselyted by the Spanish and French missionaries were Indians.

From The History of the Negro Church by Carter Godwin Woodson

She was a Gentile, but was proselyted to the Jewish religion, believed in the teachings of Paul and was baptized with her household.

From The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Methinks he should have a religion of his own; and that, not that of the Jews, because he was a Gentile; and not, as we read of, proselyted to the Jews religion.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

At the same time, church representatives canvass likely Northern communities to check on the availability of jobs and housing and the outlook for proselyting.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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