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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of proselytize.

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Examples

  • The author claimed that the Saudi ruling family "proselytized" the ideology that later became the ideological foundations of terrorism.

    Kansan.com stories 2010

  • While in the residential program, Hanas was proselytized to accept the Pentecostal faith and was not allowed to practice his own Roman Catholic religion.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • Railways Minister Liu Zhijun proselytized for high-speed rail, telling leaders from Hubei province in January that they needed to "seize the rare opportunity to accelerate the development of the railway," according to a Railways Ministry report.

    High-Speed Train Links Beijing, Shanghai Brian Spegele 2011

  • Alternative medical practitioners—who proselytized that physical suffering was a symptom of spiritual disorder and implied that anyone opposing their methods did so because he believed in a “one size fits all” approach to medicine—were able to exploit these conditions with particular effectiveness.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • You risk being proselytized, or scorned by skeptics, or ending up at a dinner party with Tim Minchen and Storm and being seated on the Storm side of the table.

    Valerie Tarico: Should Freethinkers Shun Or Claim The Language Of Spirituality? Valerie Tarico 2011

  • Railways Minister Liu Zhijun proselytized for high-speed rail, telling leaders from Hubei province in January that they needed to "seize the rare opportunity to accelerate the development of the railway," according to a Railways Ministry report.

    High-Speed Train Links Beijing, Shanghai Brian Spegele 2011

  • At the very least, it seems in line with the French philosophy towards food, as represented in and proselytized by books like "French Women Don't Get Fat."

    Claire Gordon: Weight Watchers Ad Reflects French Attitude Toward Dieting Claire Gordon 2012

  • We submitted to the Commission amongst several others, a case I cited in an earlier piece here on the Huffington Post -- The Question of Evangelism in India -- how just one church, the Houston-based Central India Christian Mission, proselytized to over 320,000 people and converted more than 19,600 inhabitants in central India in 2010 alone.

    Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Human Rights And Religious Freedom's 'In' Crowd Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

  • He hated the idea of the cosmopolitan, and proselytized against that maybe more than anything else over decades.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » G.K. Chesterton, The Apostle of Common Sense: 2010

  • We submitted to the Commission amongst several others, a case I cited in an earlier piece here on the Huffington Post -- The Question of Evangelism in India -- how just one church, the Houston-based Central India Christian Mission, proselytized to over 320,000 people and converted more than 19,600 inhabitants in central India in 2010 alone.

    Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Human Rights And Religious Freedom's 'In' Crowd Esq. Suhag A. Shukla 2011

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