proselytizer

noun

Definition of proselytizernext
as in missionary

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proselytizer
  1. missionary
  2. apostle
  3. soldier
  4. acolyte
  5. disciple
  6. adherent
  7. votary
  8. follower
Noun
  • Around that same time, Priscilla Baltimore and Bishop William Paul Quinn, an African Methodist Episcopal missionary, established the town’s AME church, which along with a Baptist church and a number of homes, served as stops in the Underground Railroad.
    Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
  • But the two young missionaries are then forced to prove their faith by becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Reed.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of missionary
Noun
  • The other day, The Athletic’s Duncan Alexander — an analytics apostle if ever there was one — got talking with a data denier in a pub.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Taken together, these apostles display impressive credentials.
    Keren Landman, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of apostle
Noun
  • Now the soldiers and horses have been rehearsing for months, with bands playing and cannons firing, to prepare them for the pomp and circumstance of a president’s funeral, said Maj. Wes Strickland, a spokesman for the Old Guard.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
  • When the soldiers, instead of rising up, jeered at him, Mishima killed himself in the classic samurai fashion: performing hara-kiri, or seppuku (as the Japanese more commonly call it), by plunging a sword into his abdomen before a uniformed disciple sliced his head off.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of soldier
Noun
  • Tucker Carlson, the Trump acolyte and former Fox News presenter, visits Moscow, where he is granted a two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin, most of which consists of Carlson being lectured on Russian history.
    The Week UK, theweek, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Just six days before last month’s elections, while other Trump acolytes were appearing on mainstream television or high-profile podcasts, Patel logged on to an ultrafringe livestreaming platform called Pilled, home to many of the biggest QAnon influencers.
    David Gilbert, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of acolyte
Noun
  • His disciples have kept the Ravens in contention nearly every year since.
    The Athletic, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But the book created a movement full of disciples — Chiengora Hand Spinners, a Facebook group, now has over 1,300 members — and made the idea accessible to the public.
    Rosalie R. Radomsky, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of disciple
Noun
  • Politics has a way of consuming its adherents and turning them into screaming Muppets without the entertainment value.
    Brenda Looper, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Better, like the Deep Adaptation adherents, to dedicate themselves to accepting their fate.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of adherent
Noun
  • But the fate of the votary is to require and receive a constant renewal of faith.
    Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Many remember the Cultural Revolution as a time of Red Guard excess—of the people terrorizing the votaries of the party.
    Mary Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
Definition of votary
Noun
  • The creator industry works because of the relationships that are built between creators and their followers.
    Rodney Mason, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In 2017, Bell treated her Instagram followers to an extensive behind-the-scenes look at her glam session ahead of the awards show, which included face masks, butt pads and even makeup application to her cleavage.
    Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of follower
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