proselytizing

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 Proselytizing - Glenn P.

|| "The navy's successes were usually peaceful; it was the failures that turned into small wars. China Americans had plenty of both in China, where their interests ran the gamut from profiteering to proselytizing . The first American commercial vessel, the Empress of China, visited the Middle Kingdom in 1784; the first missionaries arrived in 1830." ||
 * Name: || Glenn P. ||
 * Word: || **Proselytizing ** ||
 * Source: || Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot, //Butcher and Bolt//, "China" (51) ||
 * Appropriate Definition: || verb: to induce someone to convert to one's faith
 * Pronunciation || [] ||
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