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to try to change someone's core beliefs — especially religious faith or political beliefs
- Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing.1.12 -- Book 1 Chapter 12 -- Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home (28% in)
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