The word 'proselytise' is a correct and usable term in written English
It means to convert or persuade someone to adopt a new religious or political belief. Example: The group of missionaries was determined to proselytise the indigenous tribe to their religion, despite facing initial resistance from the community.
First, Terence Conran who was passionate to proselytise about modern design and willing to put his money where his proselytiser was.
Much of the political discourse reduces the complexities of climate change to political football ("axe the tax"); much media reporting sees only the hook to today's passing story; many interest groups want to use climate change to proselytise for their particular get-out-of-jail free card (nuclear power, carbon farming).
To the delight of some Catholics and the dismay of others, he has defended the right of Christians to proselytise among Muslims, and denounced liberal churchmen who are "soft" on Islam.Muslims in Italy and elsewhere have called Mr Allam a provocateur and chided Pope Benedict for abetting him.
And certainly an increasing number of organisations have managed to go paperless to some extent, and proselytise about the virtues of consigning desktop clutter to the bin.
They accuse the leadership of taking "new and untested results as hard evidence that its preferred policies work"; and of then using this research to "proselytise on behalf of bank policy".
Having one canonical version will make it easier to proselytise, especially in schools: revivalists hope to offer a set of Cornish textbooks to pupils from next year.
A more vigorous effort by governments themselves to proselytise for reforms would seem a good idea, though even this could have unintended effects.
A further risk, the institute said, was that the impulse to proselytise would obstruct the search for peace.Peacemaking by Christian evangelicals in south Sudan seems to have been mired at times by an unhappy mix of missionary work and mediation.
Such an expansive approach, naturally, entails opening more offices and hiring more staff than a more narrowly focused campaign would.Mr Obama's campaign team also wants to emulate his success in 2008 in another way, by creating a huge network of volunteers, recruited and co-ordinated in large part online, to proselytise on his behalf.
They are expected to proselytise for ten hours a day, six days a week.
Its critics say the office's mission is not to winnow the good alternatives from the bad, but to proselytise indiscriminately on behalf of all of them.The OAM's supporters deny this, of course.
