someone who attempts to convert others to a doctrine
When I try to picture the future, I can’t see myself as anything but a missionary or a teacher or a farmer, telling others how the Lord helps those that help themselves.
The Poisonwood Bible
prevent from being included or considered or accepted
My inclination was to explain the political situation as truthfully and objectively as possible and not omit the accomplishments of the PAC.
Long Walk to Freedom
And always the optimist, their mother kept battling the disease into remission, convinced she’d beat it right up to the end.
Seattle Times
(Apr 13, 2018)
inclined or willing to give in to orders or wishes of others
Usually he walked around threatening the men with a strait jacket which he always carried over his arm, and usually they were quiet and submissive in his presence.
Invisible Man
Accordingly, she submitted her query on the official form, and the following day she received a note inviting her to meet the cataloger, Harry Dibdin, in his office at eleven a.m.
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage