英语词汇“missionary”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	missionary
释义	mis·sion·ary I. \ˈmishəˌnerē, -ri\ adjective Etymology: New Latin missionarius, from mission-, missio mission + Latin -arius -ary — more at mission 1. a. : of or relating to missions < a missionary undertaking > < the missionary hospital > b. : engaged in or devoted to mission work < a missionary religion > < missionary priests > 2. : suitable to or characteristic of a person sent on or undertaking a mission < a generous composer with missionary instincts … who will attempt to lead other composers — Robert Evett > < threw himself into the campaign with missionary zeal > 3. Roman Catholicism : not having a canonically established hierarchy and subject immediately to Rome as a mission or prefecture or vicariate apostolic < a missionary territory > II. noun (-es) 1. a. : one sent to propagate the faith, doctrine, and principles of a religion or a religious group among nonbelievers < sent missionaries into those regions in the early part of the 19th century — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > b. : one who undertakes a special religious or humanitarian mission among those of his own faith or country < the missionary can … put the fear of the Lord into complacent souls that is necessary for their return to grace and salvation — D.J.Corrigan > < became a city missionary devoting his life to helping the down-and-out > c. : one who attempts to convert others to a specific way of life, set of ideas, or course of action < these early missionaries of a new and boundless materialism — M.D.Geismar > < the pressures brought directly or indirectly by the missionaries of home ownership — J.P.Dean > < has become an enthusiastic missionary for vitamin E — Eric Hutton > 2. : one who undertakes a political or diplomatic mission : agent, emissary < the administration's most-traveled diplomatic missionary — Newsweek > 3. : one who acts to undermine the morale of workers on strike III. intransitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: missionary (II) : to work as a missionary < in her wildest dreams of missionarying … had never looked forward to anything quite like her new home — R.L.Taylor >
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