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Definition of Proselytizer
1. n. One who proselytes.
Definition of Proselytizer
1. Noun. Agent noun of proselytize; one who proselytizes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Proselytizer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proselytizer
Literary usage of Proselytizer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1909)
"In addition each will be an ardent proselytizer for foreign missions. This is a
movement so broad that each advocate thereof can bo a partisan without ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1896)
"Jesus was the great Evangelist, calling men to the kingdom ; but nothing was so
alien to Him as the spirit of the proselytizer, recruiting adherents to ..."
3. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1893)
"There is no help for it; the f faithful proselytizer, if she cannot convince by
argument, /bursts into tears, and the recusant finds ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... devoted himself to education, establishing a Roman Catholic public school at
Kensington in 1873 and achieved celebrity as a preacher and proselytizer. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Haeckel is such a proselytizer, such a scoffer and fighter of those who differ
with him, that plain, unadorned statement of facts and description of things ..."
6. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"By the nature of things men of science and students of philosophy are quit of
the enthusiasm of the proselytizer and reformer. The every-day up-hill work of ..."