proselytise

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But never try to proselytise, the world is not yet fit to receive what you and Emerson say: man, as he now is, can no more do without creeds and forms in religion than he can do without laws and rules in social intercourse.

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  • Fr Igor also told Forum 18 that the Baptists proselytise ethnic Uzbeks which is against the law. —  Forum 18 News Service
  • It needs to be remembered that the "venerable" congress leader 'Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla' had invited the RSS to Madhya Pradesh to proselytise among the tribals. —  Kafila
  • I also got a large dose of pontification, to the point where I could not quite shake the impression that the author couldn't resist the opportunity of using his book as a soapbox from which to proselytise for his political views. —  California Literary Review
  • * Nurses in the UK are bound by a code of conduct which forbids them to bring their faith into their work, or proselytise. —  CathNews
  • Much less "proselytise" as Mrs Webb outrageously accuses her of. —  CathNews
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