RRCsomeone who has been sent to a foreign country to teach people about Christianity and persuade them to become Christians 〔被派到国外的〕传教士
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missionary• Sister Courtney was a missionary in Nicaragua for 15 years.• Eventually unmarried women found vocationaloutlets as missionaries.• At Kemmendine, there were two experienced missionaries, men of outstanding ability, character and devotion.• No wonder the Twelve made it their priority, and the namelessmissionaries of 8:4 took it as their great weapon.• In the basement meeting room, he placed me on a bench be-tween two other missionaries.• In the persecution of 1665, he was banished with other missionaries to Canton.• The missionaries held on to my arms.• Gambling and crowddisorder was customary but there is no question that Clarke and his boys were missionaries.• In October 1927, the young missionary was steaming at 15-20 knots towards Rangoon.
2missionary zealif you do something with missionaryzeal, you do it with great eagerness, because you believe strongly that it is a good thing to do 极大的热忱,传教士般的热情
a young English teacher who taught poetry with missionary zeal