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Synonyms for proselytize

convert

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  • convert
  • win over
  • spread the gospel to
  • evangelize to
  • make converts of
  • bring someone into the fold
  • bring someone to God
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Synonyms for proselytize

convert to another faith or religion

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Marty, "Introduction: Proselytizers and Proselytizees on the Sharp Arete of Modernity", in Sharing the Book.
More actively engaged Reformation proselytizers appeared to create novels about the pre-Protestant life of John Wycliffe and the Lollards (1328-1384).
Someone deposited a bomb outside the proselytizers' church.
There are a few fugitive CDs of his chamber works extant, one with the enticing subtitle: "Czech Degenerate Music." WCMS attacked the sextet with the passion and commitment of dedicated proselytizers; dizzying pizzicatos, soaring violin melodies, haunting cello slowdowns and bow beat-downs, easily converted the audience.
A century before it became a state, Hawaii was a popular destination for Puritan proselytizers and New England seamen, but for different reasons.
One student wrote on an exit assessment, "Before I took this class on Orientalism, what little I knew about it came from Muslim proselytizers. They said that all Western/non-Muslim scholars of Islam have a mission to spread Christianity and destroy Islam.
The News Ecosystem proselytizers, sensing a conspiracy to keep Dead Tree Media alive in a rear-guard action, see the Obama administration "federalizing" the news, in the words of the Washington Examiner's conservative Editorial page Editor Mark Tapscott.
She describes the personal, social and religious struggles of women who became proselytizers and catechists working alongside and supporting the Jesuits.
Barzinji said, adding that groups of "traveling Muslim proselytizers" sometimes appear at Virginia Tech, where he is a senior, often attracting foreign students, who tend to be more socially isolated.
Typical discussions in alt.atheism are whether you should pretend to be religious to avoid upsetting your family, prayer in schools, discrimination against atheists and how to get rid of unwanted proselytizers.
"Those people are proselytizers," says Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, head of the Ateret Yerushalayim Yeshiva.
To make a pilgrimage to Fort Worth to see these wondrous things, some made by the earliest followers in our faith, may not be possible, but to study the splendid photographs and to read of their origins is to enter into an intangible sense of fraternity with these folk, ordinary people, the first proselytizers, as well as later on from 312 A.D.
In response to a question about finding religious proselytizers knocking on his front door, Frohnmayer said, "I actually admire them, even if I would never adopt their religious views.