† missionairen.
Obsolete. rare.
A missionary. In example figurative.Recent examples of the plural form should probably be taken as typographical errors for ‘missionaries’.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > person sent on a mission
emissary1631
missioner1654
missionaire1687
missionary1693
envoy1696
1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 63 Those are the manufactures we export; And these the Missionaires [later edd. Missioners] our zeal has made.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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- boot-black
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