Usually means: Convert others to one's belief.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word proselytize:

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  1. proselytize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proselytize: Merriam-Webster
  3. proselytize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proselytize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proselytize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. proselytize: Vocabulary.com
  7. proselytize: Wordnik
  8. proselytize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. proselytize: Wiktionary
  10. proselytize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. proselytize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. proselytize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Proselytize, proselytize: Dictionary.com
  14. proselytize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Proselytize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Proselytize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. proselytize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. proselytize: Rhymezone
  19. Proselytize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. proselytize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. proselytize: FreeDictionary.org
  22. proselytize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. proselytize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proselytize: Legal dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proselytize: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See proselytization as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive, broadly) To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so.
verb:  (ambitransitive, strictly) To coerce into religious conversion.
verb:  (by extension, ambitransitive) 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.

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