The word "proselytize" is correct and usable in written English
It is a verb that means to convert or attempt to convert someone from one religion, belief or opinion to another. For example, "The church was trying to proselytize the people in the community."
With very few exceptions, though, philosophers deny that exclusivists are under any general obligation to proselytize, regardless of whether the exclusivistic system in question demands or encourages such proselytization.[6] Religious intolerance, defined as the practice of keeping others from acting in accordance with their religious beliefs, is not new.
Jason Worilds, a linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers, quit football to proselytize for Jehovah's Witnesses, while Jake Locker, a quarterback for the Tennessee Titans (some would argue that Mr Locker's promise had already passed from ripe to rotten), said last week that he "no longer [had] the burning desire necessary to play the game for a living".
Lady Thatcher also tended to proselytize about the work ethic, rather than the welfare state.
"Absent a pattern of prayers that over time denigrate, proselytize, or betray an impermissible government purpose," Justice Kennedy wrote, "a challenge based solely on the content of a prayer will not likely establish a constitutional violation".
"Veni, Veni, Emmanuel" is based on an ancient advent hymn, but it is not a dry exercise in theology or an attempt to proselytize.
In later years Monson was active with LDS mission work in the South Pacific and especially in eastern Europe, where he helped in the construction of a temple (dedicated in 1985) in Freiberg, E.Ger., and in gaining permission for the LDS to proselytize behind the Iron Curtain.
Many Polynesians were recruited to proselytize other parts of the Pacific, particularly Melanesia.
Because the Ming dynasty in China was faltering and was without much influence abroad, the conduct of Japanese foreign affairs, which would normally have been mainly with China, involved responding to Portuguese, Dutch, and English requests for trade and to Portuguese and Spanish requests for the right to proselytize in Japan.
His goals were to inspire faith and to proselytize.
Allowed to proselytize, he later estimated that he had converted some 6,700 Vietnamese to the Roman Catholic faith.
World War II brought a temporary hiatus to activities but gave California "hot rodders" the opportunity to proselytize fellow servicemen, and these new converts returned home with hot rod "fever".
