proselytize

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We must override our instinct to proselytize, and instead consciously analyze routes to reform.

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  1. intransitive verb To induce someone to convert to one's own religious faith.
  2. intransitive verb To induce someone to join one's own political party or to espouse one's doctrine.
  3. transitive verb To convert (a person) from one belief, doctrine, cause, or faith to another.

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  • Believers were usually not harassed as long as they did not practice in public or proselytize, and in time learned discretion. —  Aeon One
  • Several of them who had already signed a declaration that they would cease to proselytize, a declaration which helped them to obtain their freedom, now withdrew it, since they were anxious to suffer even more for Jehovah. —  Commandant of Auschwitz
  • We must override our instinct to proselytize, and instead consciously analyze routes to reform. —  Cato Unbound
  • "(Skipping vaccines) is certainly not something we proselytize or encourage - in fact, our primary responsibility is to make sure we do have all the paperwork." —  Aftermath News
  • And the Jews are realizing that although Christians attempt to proselytize, that the Christians have developed a respect for the fellow believers in the one and true G-d. —  Biga's Rants - A Townhall.com user blog
 

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/ˈprɑsəlɪtaɪz/
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