Any idea of proselytism is quite foreign to the ordinary Russian mind, and the outbursts of proselytizing zeal occasionally manifested by the clergy are really due to the desire for Russification, and traceable to the influence of the higher clergy and of the government.
After the arrival of the Franciscan missionaries, in 1517, Goa gradually became the headquarters of an immense proselytizing organization, which by 1561 had extended to East Africa, China, Japan and the Malay Archipelago (see GoA: Ecclesiastical History).
proselytizing הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד