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Definition of Proselytises
1. proselytise [v] - See also: proselytise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proselytises
Literary usage of Proselytises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Asiatic Studies, Religious and Social by Alfred Comyn Lyall (1899)
"... it is not dying or dead—Brahmanism still proselytises in the sense of accepting
and admitting members from the outside—Its spread among non-Aryan tribes ..."
2. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1902)
"... though herself a recent convert, Mrs. Despard never proselytises, and the
representative of the Church of England himself says that if some do adopt her ..."
3. The Hitherto Unidentified Contributions of W. M. Thackeray to "Punch": With by William Makepeace Thackeray, Marion Harry Spielmann (1900)
"Everybody who speaks, proselytises more or less. You engage to make converts just
as much as His Eminence or dear FATHER HOLDSTOCK. ..."
4. A Short History of Christianity: From the French of Salomon Reinach by Salomon Reinach (1922)
"The Russian Church has missionaries in Siberia; Buddhism sends its emissaries
into the Far East, and Islam proselytises mainly among the negroes of Africa, ..."
5. The expansion of Egypt under Anglo-Egyptian condominium by Arthur Silva White (1899)
"Missionary The American Missionary Society proselytises to a certain ci* .(.use extent
among Copts ; but its efforts are chiefly directed towards the ..."
6. Selected Essays on Language, Mythology and Religion by Friedrich Max Müller (1881)
"We may say that the English nobility grows, but we should never say that it
proselytises,. and it would be a mere playing with words if, because Brahmanism ..."
7. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1874)
"... and rituals, which to the Saxon would be intolerable ; but he never proselytises,
and, indeed, rarely speaks of the faith he holds nearest to his heart. ..."
8. The Japan Christian Year Book by Nihon Kirisutokyō Kyōgikai (1904)
"... of the " Freres de Marie :" these latter do not proselytises ex-professo ;
they content themselves with . giving a virtuous education to their pupils. ..."
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