Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - proselytize
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Proselytize
proselytize
(proselytizes, proselytizing, proselytized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'proselytise' If you proselytize, you try to persuade someone to share your beliefs, especially religious or political beliefs. (FORMAL) I assured him we didn’t come here to proselytize... Christians were arrested for trying to convert people, to proselytise them. VERB: V, V n
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1.
verb (-tized; -tizing) Date: 1679 intransitive verb 1. to induce someone to convert to one's faith 2. to recruit someone to join one's party, institution, or cause transitive verb to recruit or convert especially to a new faith, institution, or cause • proselytization noun • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (also -ise) (also absol.) convert (a person or people) from one belief etc. to another, esp. habitually. Derivatives proselytizer n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. книж. обращать в другую (обыкновенно свою) веру 2. книж. привлекать, вербовать приверженцев, членов (учреждения, спортивной команды); соблазнять; заманиватт ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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also -ise BrE v formal to try to persuade someone to join a religious group, political party etc, especially in a way that people find offensive - proselytizer n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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