proselytized

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Possibly not, but then few seriously proselytised for Barca this time last week, and look how that panned out.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2017

Coterminous with an era in which divorce rates soared and casual sex became socially unexceptionable, Mr and Mrs proselytised for the straight and narrow virtue of heterosexual commitment.

From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2013

Rogers has long proselytised for the "compact city".

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2011

Fakīrs as a body are believed to marry among themselves, and hence to form something in the nature of a caste, but they freely admit outsiders, whether Muhammadans or proselytised Hindus.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

In 1845 Mr. Gladstone remarked that he would answer every objection, but never proselytised.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron