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  • noun Plural form of proselytizer.

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Examples

  • Rabbi Schochet, through no fault of his own, came of age when Christians were seen primarily as proselytizers and as enemies of our people.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: What Is Motivating The Global Ban On 'Kosher Jesus'? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012

  • Rabbi Schochet, through no fault of his own, came of age when Christians were seen primarily as proselytizers and as enemies of our people.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: What Is Motivating The Global Ban On 'Kosher Jesus'? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012

  • Immersion baptisms became public events -- practiced by a number of denominations but most often associated with Baptists who, while mocked as "dunkers or dippers," were effective proselytizers, ICP curator Erin Barnett writes in her introductory text.

    Exhibit Wades Into The Water Of River Baptisms Bryan Maygers 2011

  • The queen sensed that although the high-profile proselytizers for sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll gained huge publicity, especially among the urban elite, for many of her subjects life was not made happier or more genuinely liberated by the new permissiveness.

    How the Queen Saved and Soothed Britain 2012

  • Immersion baptisms became public events -- practiced by a number of denominations but most often associated with Baptists who, while mocked as "dunkers or dippers," were effective proselytizers, ICP curator Erin Barnett writes in her introductory text.

    Exhibit Wades Into The Water Of River Baptisms Bryan Maygers 2011

  • Immersion baptisms became public events -- practiced by a number of denominations but most often associated with Baptists who, while mocked as "dunkers or dippers," were effective proselytizers, ICP curator Erin Barnett writes in her introductory text.

    Exhibit Wades Into The Water Of River Baptisms Bryan Maygers 2011

  • Immersion baptisms became public events -- practiced by a number of denominations but most often associated with Baptists who, while mocked as "dunkers or dippers," were effective proselytizers, ICP curator Erin Barnett writes in her introductory text.

    Exhibit Wades Into The Water Of River Baptisms Bryan Maygers 2011

  • I see no altruistic concern for anybody's 'fellow man' in the actions of dedicated proselytizers on either side, or among those who elevate their own egos to the point of claiming they know things that are not known.

    A Pat on the Back for Matzke 2009

  • Immersion baptisms became public events -- practiced by a number of denominations but most often associated with Baptists who, while mocked as "dunkers or dippers," were effective proselytizers, ICP curator Erin Barnett writes in her introductory text.

    Exhibit Wades Into The Water Of River Baptisms Bryan Maygers 2011

  • Immersion baptisms became public events -- practiced by a number of denominations but most often associated with Baptists who, while mocked as "dunkers or dippers," were effective proselytizers, ICP curator Erin Barnett writes in her introductory text.

    Exhibit Wades Into The Water Of River Baptisms Bryan Maygers 2011

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  • Unlike more traditional conquerors we are not content merely to subdue others: We insist that they be like us. And of course for their own good. We are the world's most relentless proselytizers. - The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman

    April 5, 2009