单词 | foreign missionary |
释义 | > as lemmasforeign missionary a. A person sent on or engaged in a religious mission abroad. Also: a person engaged in evangelical or humanitarian work at home. Frequently with distinguishing word, as foreign missionary (see also city missionary n. at city n. Compounds 2, home missionary n. at home n.1 and adj. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts missionary1625 missioner1654 gospeller1673 umfundisi1825 God-man1842 moruti1866 missionizer1901 missionist1909 mish1939 1625 E. Chaloner Credo Ecclesiam Sanctam Catholicam i. vii. 68 Veronus, hath..procured letters Patents for the establishing of a French Congregation of Missionaries, as hee termes them. 1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 296 Should the Jesuits of Italy..send thither their Missionaries. 1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 4 The King sent through all his Kingdom Missionaries to instruct the Protestants..in the Roman Religion. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 375 The Jesuite Missionaries of Paraguay. 1791 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 316 Why are we not all devoted to God; breathing the whole spirit of Missionaries? 1824 Cape Chron. in S. Afr. Jrnl. 1 76 Mr Moffat..Missionary of the Kuruman..has lately arrived in Cape Town..accompanied by five women and a boy of the marauding nation called ‘Mantatees’. 1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 1 232 I had occasion to accompany a home missionary into a few of the dens of London. 1852 A. Essex in A. Rabone Rec. of Pioneer Family (1966) 19 The pseudo-philanthropists and the self-righteous missionaries..have no sympathy to spare for the plundered, ruined, bereaved Colonists. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §3. 23 The missionaries of the new faith appeared fearlessly among the Mercians. 1891 M. Williams Later Leaves 390 The great assistance magistrates receive from the thirteen missionaries attached to the different Courts. 1891 M. Williams Later Leaves 397 My Court missionary saw the two off by train. 1916 C. A. Eastman From Deep Woods to Civilization 132 White men with Indian wives and missionaries, may be ordered off the reservation as ‘disturbers of the peace’. 1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond ii. 22 The Seventh Day Adventists were the busiest missionaries in Turkey and the Levant. 1979 G. MacEwan Pat Burns, Cattle King (1981) vi. 45 The good people of that city took him for a foreign missionary home on furlough and treated him with appropriate respect. 1991 Bull. Centre Sci. Devel., Pretoria Mar. 3 The missionaries failed to transform the nomadic Khoikhoi into sedentary agricultural and trading communities. < as lemmas |
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