missionaries

Meaning

of Missionary

Synonyms

Examples

Accordingly, the missionaries first organized the Anti-Opium League in China among their colleagues in every mission station in China. Source: Internet

AcadSA publishers (2008:79–80) This foundation paved the way for missionary work by Methodist missionary societies from Great Britain, many of whom sent missionaries with the 1820 English settlers to the Western and Eastern Cape. Source: Internet

After failing to convent the Yao in Magomero in 1861, the Scottish decided to send another group of missionaries. Source: Internet

After 1572, however, they made a striking comeback (also as part of the Catholic Counter-Reformation), setting up seminaries, reforming their Church, and sending missionaries into Protestant districts. Source: Internet

Addicts sometimes turned to missionaries for treatment for their addiction, though many associated these foreigners with the drug trade. Source: Internet

After some deliberation, Philip II of Spain issued a decree recognizing the drug as essential to the well-being of the Andean Indians but urging missionaries to end its religious use. Source: Internet