PROSELYTIZES Synonyms: 9 Similar and Opposite Words

proselytizes

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present tense third-person singular of proselytize

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to persuade to change to one's religious faith the efforts of early missionaries to proselytize the Native Americans of Minnesota were largely unproductive

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Recent Examples of proselytizes Opponents have argued that hanging the Ten Commandments in classrooms proselytizes to students and amounts to religious indoctrination by the government. — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026

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The software converts PDFs into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, HTML, PNG, and JPG files.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
Such metals are commonly used as industrial catalysts today—and all occur in the minerals of hydrothermal vents, where a process called serpentinization converts igneous rocks from volcanism to metamorphic rocks.

— Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026

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