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 Spanish lady consented to unite herself to the Moorish monarch, and even outwardly conformed to his religion, which the duenna also embraced with all the fervour of a proselyte, being re-named Kadiga.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis