(n.) A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte.
(v. t.) To convert to some religion, opinion, or system; to bring over.
Example Sentences:
(1) The search of cases of insanity among the rebels, the idea that their acts could only express some kind of phrenopathic disorder opens the debate on the very existence of some morbid types such as Falret's and Pottier's "reasoning, inexhaustible and proselyte lunatics", the "many characters with fanciful projects, including reformists of the human race, and various utopists" that Morel includes in his classification of hereditary insanity, Serieux's and Capgras "idealists concerned with justice" found amongst delusions related to altruistic claims, Dide's and Guiraud's "idealistic passions, social reformers, anarchists" appear to us as very outdated classifications, on the border of the psychiatric field.
(2) Bernanke – as close to a philosopher-king as we have in this country – doesn't want that title, and doesn't try to proselytize.
(3) He holds informal seminars with local ranchers, proselytizing for the militia’s cause about the federal government “tyranny” – and the illegitimacy of federal land management and custody.
(4) The current prevalent attitude of disapprobation towards the medical model, held by nurse practitioners and educationalists alike, stems from a desire to denounce diagnostic reductionism and proselytize holistic care.
(5) When the Italian replied that his friends had said any conversion would probably be the other way round, Francis replied: "Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it doesn't make sense."
(6) The era of proselytizing the virtues of consultation-liaison psychiatry is over, and as with every other area of psychiatric therapy, governmental policy makers and third party payors are appropriately demanding to see "proof" that our treatments are both clinically- and cost-effective.
(7) I'm a proselytizer for the show, a believer that it is probably the greatest currently running TV show and the one that stands the best chance of being watched in 100 years (assuming that the first eight years of The Simpsons don't count, and they shouldn't).
Proselytize
Definition:
(v. t.) To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.
(v. i.) To make converts or proselytes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The search of cases of insanity among the rebels, the idea that their acts could only express some kind of phrenopathic disorder opens the debate on the very existence of some morbid types such as Falret's and Pottier's "reasoning, inexhaustible and proselyte lunatics", the "many characters with fanciful projects, including reformists of the human race, and various utopists" that Morel includes in his classification of hereditary insanity, Serieux's and Capgras "idealists concerned with justice" found amongst delusions related to altruistic claims, Dide's and Guiraud's "idealistic passions, social reformers, anarchists" appear to us as very outdated classifications, on the border of the psychiatric field.
(2) Bernanke – as close to a philosopher-king as we have in this country – doesn't want that title, and doesn't try to proselytize.
(3) He holds informal seminars with local ranchers, proselytizing for the militia’s cause about the federal government “tyranny” – and the illegitimacy of federal land management and custody.
(4) The current prevalent attitude of disapprobation towards the medical model, held by nurse practitioners and educationalists alike, stems from a desire to denounce diagnostic reductionism and proselytize holistic care.
(5) When the Italian replied that his friends had said any conversion would probably be the other way round, Francis replied: "Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it doesn't make sense."
(6) The era of proselytizing the virtues of consultation-liaison psychiatry is over, and as with every other area of psychiatric therapy, governmental policy makers and third party payors are appropriately demanding to see "proof" that our treatments are both clinically- and cost-effective.
(7) I'm a proselytizer for the show, a believer that it is probably the greatest currently running TV show and the one that stands the best chance of being watched in 100 years (assuming that the first eight years of The Simpsons don't count, and they shouldn't).