How To Use proselyte In A Sentence
- ‘We don't want taxpayer dollars being spent in order to proselyte children into praying to Zeus and Apollo,’ she remarked.
- Coleridge was thus for him the latest in a line of prospective English prosodic proselytes.
- I think the churches are filled with people who have been proselyted to a religion.
- Englishmen when I say that to insult and abuse a man for adopting another faith, however opposed to our own, and even ridiculous in itself, is an odious method in controversy, and for myself I see little to choose between a proselyte of the gate, a renegade Mason, and a demitted Roman Catholic. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
- The painful and even dangerous rite of circumcision was alone capable of repelling a willing proselyte from the door of the synagogue. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Carnal hearts seldom shrink from the pains necessary to carry on their carnal purposes; when a proselyte is to be made to serve a turn for themselves, they will compass sea and land to make him, rather than be disappointed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
- The efforts of early missionaries to proselyte Minnesota Indians were largely unproductive.
- It was with a lingering eye to his countrymen that he took up his abode in the house of 'one that feared God,' that is, a proselyte; and that he settled down next door to the synagogue. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
- a neighbour, an Israelite in religion and worship, that is, a proselyte. From the Talmud and Hebraica
- All foreigners that came to settle in Palestine were baptized; they were called domiciliary proselytes. A Philosophical Dictionary
