(n) One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.
(a.) Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.
Example Sentences:
(1) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
(2) He sent his first missionary to America in 1960, the year he married Hak Ja Han.
(3) On being a Jesuit Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
(4) Two months later, Ugay said, he learned that he was accused of illegal missionary activity, based on evidence from three witnesses, two of whom had not been present at his talk.
(5) Most travel (71%) was for vacations, 13% was for teaching or study, 11% for business, and 5% for missionary activities.
(6) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
(7) The former missionary college used as the set for the BBC's hit series Call the Midwife is to be redeveloped as a luxury housing estate, forcing a dramatic plot shift in the show's 2013 Christmas special .
(8) The 44-year-old now faces a fine for allegedly conducting illegal missionary activity, an administrative offence under the new Yarovaya law, a package of legal amendments intended to fight terrorism that is named after its author, the MP Irina Yarovaya.
(9) Basketball-star-turned-would-be-diplomat Dennis Rodman clashed with CNN over imprisoned missionary Kenneth Bae when interviewed about an historic basketball game in North Korea.
(10) Their organisation calls them “mission co-workers”, not missionaries, in an effort to show they’re collaborating with, not directing, local partners.
(11) The humanism of an African survival culture that he sought to define in his work is reflected in the way he conducted his relationships, whether he was writing to a former missionary teacher or to the writer Langston Hughes.
(12) But weirdly, instead of being turned away, I am allowed in by an Australian missionary called Cherie.
(13) You made history, you opened their eyes.” In his eulogy, the Rev Steve Daniels Jr of Shiloh Missionary Baptist church questioned why racial profiling still occurred in the US He said he grew up in Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s and understood the frustrations expressed by today’s protesters in response to police shootings of black people.
(14) "We're doing a missionary job; we're educating people about other brands," says Wei.
(15) A case of cutaneous myiasis produced by D. hominis in a 26-year Polish missionary, who spent 3 months in Peru in 1990 is presented.
(16) A number of US missionaries have been arrested in the past, with some allowed to return home after interventions by high-profile US figures.
(17) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(18) In 1966 she was sent as a missionary to Brazil at a time when the progressive practices of liberation theology were sweeping through the Catholic church in Latin America.
(19) During his homily he said that, given theirs was the foremost Catholic country in Asia, Filipinos were called to be missionaries of faith.
(20) The functional complementarity of Western medicine to the pluralistic Chinese medical structure enabled missionary medicine to gain increasing credibility from the Chinese, although few Chinese actually understood the basic principles of Western medicine.
Redemptorist
Definition:
(n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth.
Example Sentences:
(1) "He will be especially remembered for his work in the Northern Ireland peace process," the Redemptorist order said.
(2) Us Redemptorists, we’ve been in more difficult situations before,” says Brother Jun Santiago.
(3) The Redemptorist order of Catholic priests, of which the Co Tipperary born cleric was a member, announced that he died peacefully in hospital in Dublin.
(4) One of the most famous is the Baclaran, or the Redemptorist church, which runs several safe houses.