单词 | missionizing |
释义 | missionizingn. Missionary activity or work, esp. the conducting or promoting of religious missions. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] mission1641 mission?1821 missionizing1858 missioning1886 missionarism1890 missionization1891 1858 A. Pryne in W. G. Brownlow & A. Pryne Ought Amer. Slavery to be Perpetuated? 188 It will take such missionizing as the gentleman gives us here, a long time to convert the North to Southern ethics. 1893 19th Cent. July 167 The missionising..function of the Church. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. May 615/2 I hold no particular brief for their missionising. 1971 J. H. Kelley in R. Moisés et al. Tall Candle Introd. p. xiii A large part of the success of this early missionizing must be attributed to the caliber of the Jesuits assigned there. 1993 J. Sayers Innocent III 93 The curia's ancient policy and purpose of missionizing and converting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). missionizingadj. Engaged on a religious mission, missionary. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [adjective] > conducting or promoting missionizing1864 1864 M. Oliphant Perpetual Curate I. ii. 33 A kind of meddling, Dissenterish, missionising individual. 1965 Pacific Affairs 38 139 Such leadership can legitimate the transformations of a missionizing approach. 1991 N. Bawden Woman of my Age 104 My fervour was religious: I fought to save his sinner's soul as ardently as any missionizing Christian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1858adj.1864 |
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