noun. One who is sent on a mission, especially one sent to do religious or charitable work in a territory or foreign country.

noun. One who attempts to persuade or convert others to a particular program, doctrine, or set of principles; a propagandist.

adjective. Of or relating to missions or missionaries.

adjective. Engaged in the activities of a mission or missionary.

adjective. Tending to propagandize or use insistent persuasion.

Relating or pertaining to missions, especially Christian missions; proper to one sent on a mission; characteristic of a propagandist: as, a missionary society or meeting; missionary funds; missionary work; missionary zeal or energy.

noun. One who is sent upon a mission; an envoy or messenger.

noun. Specifically, a person sent by ecclesiastical authority to labor for the propagation of his religious faith in a community where his church has no self-supporting indigenous organization; hence, any propagandist.

adjective. Of or pertaining to missions

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

noun. a Roman Catholic missionary sent by commission from the pope.

noun. A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed.

noun. A religious messenger.

noun. A common position for undertaking sexual intercourse.

noun. someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program

adjective. relating to or connected to a religious mission

noun. someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country

"This missionary had a son in the school, and I noticed that, whatever the “missionary” might have said or done with regard to others, he was careful not to take his son away from the institution."

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