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missionaryize

missionaryize verb: to spread religion to, in the role of a missionary.

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 missionaryize

third-person singular presentmissionaryizes
present participlemissionaryizing
past participlemissionaryized
pastmissionaryized

Origin of missionaryize

From missionary + -ize.

Questions about missionaryize

What does missionaryize mean?
Missionaryize means to spread religion to, in the role of a missionary.
What part of speech is missionaryize?
Missionaryize is a verb.
What is the past tense of missionaryize?
The past tense of missionaryize is missionaryized.

Words near missionaryize in the dictionary

  1. missionary zeal
  2. missionary-linguist
  3. missionary-linguists
  4. missionarying
  5. missionaryism
  6. missionaryize
  7. missionaryized
  8. missionaryizes
  9. missionaryizing
  10. missionarylike
  11. missionaryship

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