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Definition of Missionary

Missionary

One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.

Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
Deborah Cox

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
Kevin Smith

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Kate Adie

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot

Missionary Translations

missionary in Afrikaans is sendeling
missionary in Dutch is missionaris, zendeling
missionary in French is missionnaire
missionary in German is Missionar
missionary in Spanish is misionero

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