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missionarize

missionarize is the alternative form of missionaryize.

Meaning of missionaryize

Verb

missionaryize (third-person singular simple present missionaryizes, present participle missionaryizing, simple past and past participle missionaryized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To spread religion to, in the role of a missionary.

Forms of missionarize

third-person singular presentmissionarizes
present participlemissionarizing
past participlemissionarized
pastmissionarized

Questions about missionarize

What is missionarize the alternative form of?
Missionarize is the alternative form of missionaryize.

Words near missionarize in the dictionary

  1. missionaries
  2. missionaries and cannibals problem
  3. missionaries and cannibals problems
  4. missionarily
  5. missionarise
  6. missionarize
  7. missionarized
  8. missionarizes
  9. missionarizing
  10. missionars
  11. missionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missionarize (page history and authors); missionaryize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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