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What does proselytize mean?

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

Verb
  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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And it's fundamental to some of these faith-based organizations that they have a right to proselytize.
Many Polynesians were recruited to proselytize other parts of the Pacific, particularly Melanesia.
He said the judge's purpose was not to proselytize or to act as a public advocate for his views, but only to explain why he held them.
Most religions tend to proselytize and to accept or encourage marriages with converts, resulting in quite large, genetically diverse populations.
Therefore the tensions between the rights of that organization to proselytize and the rights of others conflict.
In 1820, members of the Congregational Protestant Church had arrived and begun to proselytize.

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