"proselytize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈpɹɒs.əl.ɪ.taɪz/ [UK], /ˈpɹɒs.əl.ə.taɪz/ [UK], /ˈpɹɑ.sə.lɪ.taɪz/ [General-American], /ˈpɹɑ.sə.lə.taɪz/ [General-American], /ˈpɹɑ.zə.lɪ.taɪz/ [Canada], /ˈpɹɑ.zə.lə.taɪz/ [Canada] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-proselytize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: proselytizes [present, singular, third-person], proselytizing [participle, present], proselytized [participle, past], proselytized [past]
Etymology: proselyte + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|proselyte|ize}} proselyte + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} proselytize (third-person singular simple present proselytizes, present participle proselytizing, simple past and past participle proselytized)
  1. (transitive, intransitive, broadly) To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so. Tags: broadly, intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Religion Synonyms: evangelize, convert
    Sense id: en-proselytize-en-verb-8KctKU4p Disambiguation of Religion: 33 33 34
  2. (transitive, intransitive, broadly) To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so.
    (transitive, intransitive, strictly) To coerce into religious conversion.
    Tags: broadly, intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Religion Synonyms: evangelize, convert, convert
    Sense id: en-proselytize-en-verb-rH9A8u~d Disambiguation of Religion: 33 33 34 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
  3. (by extension, transitive, intransitive) To advertise a non-religious belief, way of living, cause, point of view, (scientific) hypothesis, social or other position, political party, or other organization; to convince someone to join such a cause or organization or support such a position; to recruit someone. Tags: broadly, intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Religion Synonyms: advocate, back, endorse, peddle, recruit Translations (induce people to join a cause): získávat stoupence (Czech), missionere (Danish), missioneren (Dutch), werven (Dutch), käännyttää (Finnish), tehdä käännytystyötä (Finnish), värvätä (Finnish), prosélytiser (French), bekehren (German), überzeugen (German), (Anhänger) gewinnen (als) (German), für seine Sache gewinnen (German), προσηλυτίζω (prosilytízo) (Greek), apostołować [imperfective] (Polish), proselitizar (Portuguese), proselitar (Portuguese), завлека́ть (zavlekátʹ) (Russian), misionirati (Serbo-Croatian), misionar (Spanish), convertir (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-proselytize-en-verb-mVpDrK0f Disambiguation of Religion: 33 33 34 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 27 49 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 19 65 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 23 24 53 Disambiguation of 'induce people to join a cause': 6 6 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: proselytise (english: non-Oxford British English) Related terms: proselyte, proselytism Translations (convert to one’s own faith): 傳教 (Chinese Mandarin), 传教 (alt: chuán jiào; ㄔㄨㄢˊㄐㄧㄠˋ) (Chinese Mandarin), obrátit na víru (Czech), obracet na víru (Czech), omvende (Danish), bekeren (Dutch), käännyttää (Finnish), tehdä lähetystyötä [religion, lifestyle] (Finnish), bekehren (German), missionieren (German), seinen Glauben predigen (German), seinen Glauben verkünden (German), προσηλυτίζω (prosilytízo) (Greek), 改宗 (kaishū) (Japanese), മതം മാറ്റുക (mataṁ māṟṟuka) (Malayalam), misjonere (Norwegian), apostołować [imperfective] (Polish), converter (Portuguese), обраща́ть в свою веру (obraščátʹ) (Russian), preobratiti se (Serbo-Croatian), promijeniti vjeru (Serbo-Croatian), konvertirati se (Serbo-Croatian), convertir (Spanish), misionar (Spanish), omvända (Swedish), proselytisera (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'convert to one’s own faith': 43 43 14

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          "word": "für seine Sache gewinnen"
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          "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
          "word": "завлека́ть"
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      "word": "seinen Glauben predigen"
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      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
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      "roman": "obraščátʹ",
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      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "promijeniti vjeru"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "傳教"
    },
    {
      "alt": "chuán jiào; ㄔㄨㄢˊㄐㄧㄠˋ",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "传教"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "obrátit na víru"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "obracet na víru"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "omvende"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "bekeren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "käännyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "topics": [
        "religion",
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "word": "tehdä lähetystyötä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "bekehren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "missionieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "seinen Glauben predigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "seinen Glauben verkünden"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "prosilytízo",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "προσηλυτίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kaishū",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "改宗"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "mataṁ māṟṟuka",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "മതം മാറ്റുക"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "misjonere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "apostołować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "converter"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obraščátʹ",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "обраща́ть в свою веру"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "preobratiti se"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "promijeniti vjeru"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "konvertirati se"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "convertir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "misionar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "omvända"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "convert to one’s own faith",
      "word": "proselytisera"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "získávat stoupence"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "missionere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "missioneren"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "werven"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "käännyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "tehdä käännytystyötä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "värvätä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "prosélytiser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "bekehren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "überzeugen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "roman": "als",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "(Anhänger) gewinnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "für seine Sache gewinnen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "prosilytízo",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "προσηλυτίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "apostołować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "proselitizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "proselitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zavlekátʹ",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "завлека́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "misionirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "misionar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "induce people to join a cause",
      "word": "convertir"
    }
  ],
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}

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