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missioneering

missioneering noun: the religious work done by missionaries.

Noun

missioneering (uncountable)

  1. The religious work done by missionaries.
    • […] and they plotted their territory of islands and inlets by means of their celebrated totem poles, which, like the older corpus of petroglyphs, link the seat and precedence of family dynasties to a history that runs from creation to missioneering by Russian Orthodox priests.1992, Gordon Brotherston, Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature, page 24

Questions about missioneering

What does missioneering mean?
Missioneering means the religious work done by missionaries.
What part of speech is missioneering?
Missioneering is a noun.

Words near missioneering in the dictionary

  1. missionarylike
  2. missionaryship
  3. missionaryships
  4. missioned
  5. missionee
  6. missioneering
  7. missionees
  8. missioner
  9. missioners
  10. missioning
  11. missionisation

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