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Proselytism

noun
1.
The practice of proselytizing.
2.
The state of being a proselyte; spiritual rebirth resulting from the zeal of crusading advocacy of the gospel.





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"Proselytism" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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 it profiteth us nothing, ...
— Parish Papers • Norman Macleod
... was sincerely doing his best. Adzukizawa finally stood by him. These two alone attended the lectures until the remainder of the students, two weeks later, found that Yokogi's views were rational. On another occasion when some vulgar proselytism was attempted by a Christian missionary, Yokogi went boldly to the proselytiser's house, argued with him on the morality of his effort, and reduced him to silence. Some of his comrades praised his cleverness in the argument. 'I am not clever,' he made answer: 'it does not ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn
... hopeless, and the people quietly submitted to their new rulers. So far as they knew the temper and policy of the English, they might conclude their religion would at their hands not only be safe from violence, but protected from every attempt at proselytism. The policy which would have left Hinduism undisturbed was successfully opposed by the Christian feeling of England, and the way was opened for the Christian missionary into the very fortress of Hindu idolatry. For this entrance we are ...
— Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 • James Kennedy


Words linked to "Proselytism" :   spiritual rebirth, conversion, suasion, rebirth, persuasion


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