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What does missionary mean?

missionary

someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program relating to or connected to a religious mission someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country

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Simple sentences

Yesterday, a young missionary was at my front door, but I was not able to dissuade him from his faith.
Tom went to Korea as a Christian missionary.
Tom is a Christian missionary.
In 1807, Robert Morrison, the first British Protestant missionary to China arrived in Guangzhou.
From 1859, Protestant missionaries from America started to arrive, and the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches also became actively involved in missionary work.
Tom became a missionary.

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Now, according to missionary rules, lights out promptly at 10, and we all wake up at exactly 6:30.
We just walk up like we're at the missionary training center.
I just got stuck with you by the missionary training center!
My father has been given a missionary posting.
When his father died, she married my father, Dr. Rand, the missionary.
A missionary's widow?
Miss Livingstone and the missionary.
Livingstone was the missionary.
The Society for the Propagation of the Faith. has asked me to supply a volunteer missionary. for China.
I see you have a fine missionary instinct, Joseph.
I shall make my subject the dangers and difficulties of the missionary field.
Then another missionary came.
No. He was more the missionary type.
If I don't pass the examinations, I shall volunteer as a missionary.
A missionary specializing in the ancient Mongolian language.
He was more the missionary type.
Missionary on the North Pole.
I came here as a missionary to the Indians.
I'm not a politician or a missionary.
Father and two uncles work for the government mother plays the harp, grandfather was a missionary in French Equatorial Africa, and there hasn't been a scandal in the family since 1822.
A very sweet boy who is now a missionary in French Equatorial Africa.
You were educated in white missionary schools?
I've written to the head of the missionary society.
To be a missionary in China today is frightfully difficult.
Since you were recommended by the missionary society I assume you know the difference between right and wrong.
I want to be a missionary. A missionary?
I've been a missionary here for, oh, thirty years, and at times I don't know what to think.
A missionary taught you English?
Now you talk like a missionary.
But are we dealing here with an insane woman or a missionary?
Specialises in door-to-door collection for missionary work.
You and I are as different as a pedlar of religious items in the Place Saint-Sulpice and a missionary in the heart of Africa.
It came in the missionary barrels.
Missionary barrels?
So anyway, my father wrote to the missionary people. and asked them to please send a little secondhand doll.
When the missionary barrels came. instead of a doll, they sent a pair of crutches.
But, fortunately, there was an American.missionary living close by who was actually a, uh, skilled, uh, plastic surgeon in civilian life.
I, God's servant, a missionary. I've come before you, dear maidens, to give you knowledge and God's blessing.

News and current affairs

Her missionary zeal fell on deaf ears.
This overweening certitude is not new - the United States, after all, was founded on missionary zeal - but the ethical arrogance is.
Renewables have been pursued with a sort of missionary zeal, regardless of their effectiveness or feasibility.
The missionary ethos of American civilization helps to explain its conduct as a global power.
Tempered by the US public's fatigue with overseas adventures, America's missionary zeal to save the world from the wickedness of faraway autocrats will be reduced substantially.

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