missionary
missionary
Definition
mis·sion·ary (-er′ē)
adjective
of or characteristic of missions or missionaries, esp. religious ones
Etymology: ModL (Ec) missionarius
noun pl. -·ar′·ies
a person sent on a mission, esp. on a religious mission
missionary
Synonyms
missionary
n.
missionary
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- arrive: In 1865, German missionaries arrived on the tiny Indonesian island of Nias.
- send: Whatever the truth of the story Gregory did send missionaries to England.
- become: I assume you know Paul is not talking about going off to become a missionary or a minister.
- travel: I used to be a missionary; a proper traveling missionary zipping round Europe and Eurasia working with students.
- ask: Several years later, when I was in the same district, I asked the same missionary the same question.
Adjective modifier
- Pentecostal: We can only guess at what incredible mistakes these early pentecostal missionaries must have made.
- Franciscan: Michael Strode was introduced to Mother Mary Francis, then superior of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary of the Angels.
- Baptist: And on December 30, 2002 - three Southern Baptist missionaries working in the Baptist Hospital at Jibla were killed.
- Mormon: One of the highlights of the month was the conducting of a party of 12 Mormon Missionaries around the Upper Series of Swildons.
- church-based: To read about the present-day role of a church-based missionary see the article Church-based mission work â what is it?
- Presbyterian: Alexander Robert Crawford was licensed to preach on 1 May 1894 and was ordained in the following year as a Presbyterian missionary.
Modifies a noun
- zeal: Crooks himself, whilst a consummate entrepreneur, has lost none of his missionary zeal.
- vocation: The strength of the experiential interpretation of the missionary vocation is also under-estimated.
- bishop: An early missionary bishop among the Picts in Scotland.
- ecclesiology: Trinity and missionary ecclesiology It is a helpful truism to state that best theology starts with the topic of God.
- endeavor: Later that year, the first missionary endeavor of St Joseph's was realized.
- journey: Here was the Apostle Paul on his missionary journey.
Noun used with modifier
- Jesuit: From the late Seventeenth Century great areas of the country's eastern lowlands were effectively ruled by Jesuit missionaries.
- pioneer: John Paton was a great pioneer missionary who devoted himself to sharing the gospel with the cannibals of the New Hebrides in the Pacific.
- woman: The women missionaries could often get where no male missionary could.
missionary Quotes
If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
I feel truer to myselfmore of a missionary than a politician.
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