Proselytism
The term proselytism comes from the Latin ecclesiastical proselytus , which is a loan with the Greek προσήλυτος prosêlutos , " newcomer (in a foreign country) " from where, by extension, " newcomer (in a religion) ". The proselytism of the origins is thus secondarily related to religious conversion, but it is in this last meaning that it was spread, thanks to the Greek of the Seventy. The term, in Latin, has only the religious direction; the same applies in French.
The historical dictionary of the French language of Alain Rey announces that the word was introduced in French like Hebraic antiquity, and that as of 15th, the word proselyte is said of a person recently gained to a cause.
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Positive connotation:- Missionary
- Work missionary
- Preaching
- Religion
- Testimony
Negative connotation:
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