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- verb Present participle of
proselyte .
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Examples
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Would "proselyting" -- people advertising their religion or religious organization in chat channels -- be a problem?
February 2006 2006
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Would "proselyting" -- people advertising their religion or religious organization in chat channels -- be a problem?
Religion in MMOGs 2006
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Now the idea of proselyting other nations to a new religion was absolutely unknown to the world at that time.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857
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There are currently over 52,000 “proselyting” Mormon missionaries serving throughout the world, joining the ranks of some one million that the church has sent out to proclaim the gospel since its founding.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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In the full tide of his proselyting fervor, borne along by the hand of God, Sturges Owen would have ventured alone into the camp of the unbeliever, equally prepared for miracle or martyrdom; but in the waiting which ensued, the fever of conviction died away gradually, as the natural man asserted itself.
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By combining the means by which men and women are degraded into potentially satanic forms of beasts, as rituals associated with Satanism practiced as an “anti-religion,” large-scale Satanic movements are developed through systematic proselyting.
Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation 2008
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Daniel, since Judaism is not a proselyting religion, surely Orthodox Judaism has no 'ambition' that needs to be contained.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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He is opinionated and conceited but few subscribe to his pseudo-religious proselyting and he is but another charlatan peddling his own doctrine and demanding absolute obedience to his manufactured scripture.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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And also through his work on infiltration of military culture with Religious Right proselyting.
Exclusive Interview with Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold 2009
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'Daniel, since Judaism is not a proselyting religion, surely Orthodox Judaism has no' ambition 'that needs to be contained.'
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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