They were endowed with many admirable virtues, and were eminently suited to be helpers to their worthy husbands in proselytising among the heathen; but of one thing she was sure; there was a wide difference between them and Miss Wenaston.
Without any intention of proselytising it came naturally to him to combat beliefs that he considered to be obsolete and obstructive to progress of thought.
Compulsory means for proselytising never have been, and never will be, effectual in the case of Mahommedans; but what can withstand self-denying kindness?
Both Elizabeth and Martin were now dead--the latter in 1618.
A few distinguished Catholic Irishmen have obtained the excellent education it has always afforded; and these have been treated with scrupulous fairness; no attempt at proselytising has ever been made or thought of.
And while France protects the proselytising machinery of the Roman Catholic Church and its consequent usurpation of the Chinese authority, it would seem of little avail to place other missionaries under restriction.
Venice, in order to carry on the work of proselytising in Italy.
From Mühlhausen, Münzer went forth on a proselytising crusade in A.
Their activity in proselytising is equally great with their zeal for missions to the heathen.
We need sorely a critical edition of the curious Perceval li Gallois, with its blending of wild, folk-lore features with late proselytisingand allegorising tendency, its baffling parallels to the German Parzival.
No doubt the thunder had shaken her stomach's confidence in the soundness of its opinions, so as to weaken its proselytising power.
He recurred to his old idea of establishing a system of unsectarian national education, and he readily abandoned the corrupt and proselytising charter schools.
But even that failed to stop these big, burly men, bent on plunder, bent on proselytising at the sword's point.
In another case, the first work of proselytising was confided to an artist, who painted before the terrified Pagans the last judgment and the torments of hell.
But, it is said, we must regard this Church as an aggressive Church, a proselytising Church, a Church militant among spiritual enemies.
When the Christian monks were proselytising at Rome, they were hated, says Jortin, "as beggarly impostors and hungry Greeks who seduced ladies of fortune and quality.
It does not matter what the special sectarianism is: the proselytising of a hierarchical Church, and the proselytising of the Plymouth Brethren, are alike dishonourable and alike condemned.
As far as the word itself goes, the "deceit" which they used may have been intended to cloak either their personal or their proselytising views.
Hurrell Froude was a brilliant talker, a consummate dialectician, and an ardent proselytising controversialist.
But he was an enthusiast for Federation by means of a South African Conference, and he made a proselytising tour through the Colony.
He was sent to Cambridge, and is said there to have nearly fallen a victim to the proselytising Jesuits, who enticed him to London.
Five years afterwards Condé and his Huguenots took the place, and did so much proselytising there that in 1589 Chauny was one of the first towns in France to recognise Henry of Navarre as King of France.
In the one case we have a proselytising, atheistic Republic bent on abolishing the religion of an unquestionable majority of the French people; in the other, we have a proselytising emperor bent on organizing empire in Mexico.
All their proselytising efforts, however, remained fruitless; the Kalmucks were deaf to their instruction.
Some Russian missionaries attempted their conversion towards the close of the last century, but their proselytising efforts, based on force, were fruitless, and produced nothing but revolts.
I do not know a single writer on Islam who defends the use of force in the proselytising process.
Such an attempt is the more unreasonable when it is made not even as a bonafide and independent effort of proselytising logic or reason, but only to justify a treaty entered into for political and worldly purposes.
The conquest of the Kingdom of Granada by Ferdinand and Isabella opened up a new field for the proselytising fervour of the Inquisition, which was now resolved to convert all Mahometan subjects to the Christian faith.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proselytising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
