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Type Words
Synonyms missioner
Type of religious person
Type Words
Synonyms missional
Type Words
Type of teacher, instructor
Has types cyril, saint cyril, st. cyril

Examples of missionary

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The course of missionary activity is also beginning to flow from South to North.
From the theatlantic.com
Bourgeois, a Vietnam veteran, served as a missionary in Bolivia and El Salvador.
From the kentucky.com
The state's other statue is of Father Junipero Serra, the Franciscan missionary.
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Urmia University was first built by an American Presbyterian missionary in 1878.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The second missionary watches this in horror, and then is given the same choice.
From the washingtonpost.com
This wood carved figure escaped emasculation, despite its missionary collectors.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Jacob Hamblin, a Mormon missionary, first made a trip into Hopi country in 1858.
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The first missionary to live in Kiribati arrived at Abaiang on 16 November 1857.
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I wish to make an appeal to young Catholics to consider the missionary vocation.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • Relating to or connected to a religious mission
  • Someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program
  • A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to carry on ministries of the word, such as evangelism and literacy, or ministries of service, such as education, social justice, health care and economic development. ...
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, with over fifty thousand full-time missionaries worldwide, as of the end of 2009. ...
  • The Missionary is a 1982 British comedy directed by Richard Loncraine, produced by George Harrison, Denis O'Brian, Michael Palin (also the film's writer and co-producer) and Neville C. Thompson. The film stars Palin as the Rev. ...
  • A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed; A religious messenger; A common position for undertaking sexual intercourse
  • (Missionaries) People sent to another place to spread a religion or do social work.
  • (Missionaries) The first stamps of Hawaii, issued 1851-52, considered among the great classics of philately.
  • (Missionaries) New Zealand has sent more missionaries to the poorer nations of the world, per head of population than just about any other nation in the world. Ironically it has one of the lowest rates of church attendance.