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Proselytism   Listen
noun
Proselytism  n.  
1.
The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. "They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree."
2.
Conversion to a religion, system, or party.





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"Proselytism" Quotes from Famous Books



... artful proselytism, Eleanor. In your brave honesty, in your beautiful enthusiasm, you did not know that the purpose of all this has been, to make a Methodist of Eleanor Powle, and as a necessary preliminary or condition, to break off her promised marriage with me. If that fellow ...
— The Old Helmet, Volume I • Susan Warner
... meetings, associations, and organisations, with no end of committees, resolutions, and motions; we raise large sums of money; we have large congregations;—yet all this, and much more, we can do from pride, vanity, love of party, love of power, the spirit of proselytism, and the like. We may possess many gifts, understand mysteries and all knowledge; we may bestow our goods to feed the poor, in zeal for Church or party we may be willing to give our bodies to be burned; but before God ...
— Parish Papers • Norman Macleod


Words linked to "Proselytism" :   spiritual rebirth, rebirth


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