Sentence examples for proselytized from inspiring English sources
The word "proselytized" is correct and can be used in written English
It is used to express the process of trying to convert someone to a particular belief or opinion. For example, "He was proselytized to give up his old beliefs and accept the new religion."
On his return to Greenland, he proselytized for Christianity and converted his mother, who built the first church in Greenland, at Brattahild, Erik the Red's estate.
Dorsey was ordained a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1871 and proselytized among the Ponca tribe in the Dakota Territory.
Intel placed in electronics magazines articles expounding the microprocessors' capabilities and proselytized engineering organizations and companies in the hope that others would come up with applications.
I have had these books — "The Everlasting Man," a study of Jesus and Christianity; his life of St. Francis; his defense of Thomas Aquinas — pressed on me by Catholic friends with something like the same enthusiasm with which I have proselytized for the pre-Catholic Chesterton.
In 1997, he founded the Civility Institute, a network of research and outreach centers at Johns Hopkins that proselytized for politeness, in the name of not just personal dignity but organizational efficiency as well.
I proselytized, converting my brothers and even my sister.
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.
Today, the right is out there organizing and proselytizing and signing people up for yet another grievance-hyping mass movement.
It's not fatalistic to say so.Mr Frank's fair point is that there is much to be said for "organizing and proselytizing and signing people up for... [a] grievance-hyping mass movement".
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.
