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missionary

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noun

mis·​sion·​ary ˈmi-shə-ˌner-ē How to pronounce missionary (audio)
plural missionaries
: a person undertaking a mission and especially a religious mission
Several years ago, when I was working as a reporter based in Haiti, I came upon a group of older Christian missionaries in the mountains above Port-au-Prince … They were there to build a school alongside a Methodist church. Jacob Kushner
Hawaiian Pidgin English developed during the 1800s and early 1900s, when immigrant laborers from China, Portugal, and the Philippines arrived to work in the plantations; American missionaries also came around that time. Alia Wong

missionary

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adjective

1
: relating to, engaged in, or devoted to missions
2
: characteristic of a missionary

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Beginning around 1540, an order of Catholic priests known as the Jesuits began to send its members to many parts of the world to convert peoples who believed in other gods to Christianity. Wherever they went, the Catholic missionaries built central buildings for their religious work, and the buildings themselves became known as missions; many 17th-century missions in the American West and Southwest are now preserved as museums. Their foes, the Protestants, soon began sending out their own missionaries, and today Protestant missionaries are probably far more numerous.

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Noun
That’s what a whole lot of missionary/athletes are dealing with. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022 The sculpture, created by Malawian artist, Samson Kambalu, restages a photograph of Chilembwe and John Chorley, a European missionary taken at the opening of Chilembwe’s new church in 1914. Ciku Kimeria, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2022 Before she was elected to Congress, Walorski served three terms in the Indiana Statehouse, worked as a missionary in Romania and spent time as a television news reporter and development director in higher education. Marek Mazurek, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2022 Van Looy, a priest of the Salesian religious order who served as a missionary in South Korea, had been bishop of the northwest Belgian diocese from 2004-2020. Nicole Winfield, ajc, 17 June 2022 Surprisingly, the monument also includes Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, a 19th-century Jesuit missionary and explorer. The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 July 2022 Rosmarie worked for five years as a missionary and teacher in Papua New Guinea with her sister Maria, her relatives said. Lisa Rathke, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022 Conceição charts the settlers’ destabilized status in the country through the growing peril faced by a white female missionary, eventually evicted from her home by Black revolutionaries, though the film’s perspective remains aloof and impartial. Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022 Later that same year, in the U.S., the pope canonized St. Junípero Serra, an 18th-century missionary in California who critics say oppressed indigenous people there. Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 26 July 2022
Adjective
The political thriller tells the true story of four American missionary women who were raped and murdered in El Salvador in 1980. Brent Lang, Variety, 23 Aug. 2022 In July, the government outlawed the missionary order founded by Mother Teresa and expelled the order’s 18 nuns from the country without explanation. BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022 It’s like the old missionary analogy about trying to describe what salt tastes like. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022 Some of the anachronisms clashing with the mostly 18th-century costume design—such as Almaviva’s Mormon missionary disguise—were genuinely funny; others, like having Bartolo (Kevin Burdette) do a yoga routine in mid-aria, were distracting. Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022 Jackson Kemper, the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church, influenced the creation of Nashotah House. Eddie.morales@jrn.com, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2022 Caron said returning the missionary collection items would help heal the intergenerational trauma and enable Indigenous peoples to tell their own story. Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2022 In the New Testament, Silas was one of the early Christians who accompanied Paul on his missionary journey. Martha Sorren, Woman's Day, 11 July 2022 As a result of Christian missionary efforts on tribal lands, some tribes espouse a blend of Christian and traditional beliefs and might lean conservative, van Schilfgaarde said. Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 26 June 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1623, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

1644, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of missionary was in 1623

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