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What does proselytize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word proselytize? Here's what it means.

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  1. (intransitive, transitive) To advertise one's religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To advertise a non-religious belief, way of living, cause, point of view, [scientific] hypothesis, social or other position, political party, or other organization; to convince someone to join such a cause or organization or support such a position, to recruit someone.
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Lady Thatcher also tended to proselytize about the work ethic, rather than the welfare state.
And it's fundamental to some of these faith-based organizations that they have a right to proselytize.
Second, many professors do abuse the power of the podium in order to proselytize for their particular ideological views and to attack competing ideas.
It's to educate and not indoctrinate, to present and not proselytize.
Today's evangelicals, like 16 th-century Protestants, seek to proselytize and convert in ways that today's mainline largely does not.
In such cases, it is not enough for adherents to be faithful, to follow the church canon, to proselytize and seek conversions.

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