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proselyte

[pros-uh-lahyt] / ˈprɒs əˌlaɪt /
NOUN
convert
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NOUN
recruit
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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

Mary Frank, the artist, is his friend and fellow solar-cooking proselyte.

From The New Yorker

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

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

"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