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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of proselytise.

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Examples

  • But the American Civil Liberties Union said students could be influenced or "proselytised" if teachers are allowed to wear religious symbols and clothing in class.

    NSS News 2010

  • But the American Civil Liberties Union said students could be influenced or "proselytised" if teachers are allowed to wear religious symbols and clothing in class.

    NSS News 2010

  • Either he'd been bopped on the head and taken somewhere against his will, or and in the back of our minds we knew this was the one he had gone off with the Process or the Children of God or one of the other hippie Christian sects that proselytised along Hollywood Boulevard.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • That or perhaps they have been proselytised by Andrés Duany enough to have developed a raging hero complex for things wholesome and bourgeois.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • That or perhaps they have been proselytised by Andrés Duany enough to have developed a raging hero complex for things wholesome and bourgeois.

    The Army Corps of Engineers: The Game 2007

  • He was still as brave as those marvellous fanatics of seven centuries before, who, in the name of God and of His Prophet Mahomet, had swept all opposition aside from the path of Islam, had conquered and proselytised in a manner never paralleled in the world before.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • Were not the Idumeans proselytised almost by force?

    Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Muhammadans in Hindu eyes; they, like the English, are regarded as distinguished foreigners, who, if they consented to be proselytised, would probably in time become Brahmans or at least Rajputs.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

  • A portion of the tribe is said to have adopted a sort of nominal Christianity; so many indeed have been proselytised, that to use the quaint expression of a Russian writer (Wagner), the converts far exceed the entire population – something like my countryman, who, when his pocket was picked, declared that five out of four of his companions were thieves.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • Rogers has long proselytised for the "compact city".

    The Guardian World News Rowan Moore 2011

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