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Beginning around 1540, an order of Catholic priests known as the Jesuits began to send its members to many parts of the world to convert peoples who believed in other gods to Christianity. Wherever they went, the Catholic missionaries built central buildings for their religious work, and the buildings themselves became known as missions; many 17th-century missions in the American West and Southwest are now preserved as museums. Their foes, the Protestants, soon began sending out their own missionaries, and today Protestant missionaries are probably far more numerous.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2025
The hula was forever changed with the arrival of foreigners, and in particular the arrival of Christian missionaries, whose influence led to a brief ban of public performances in the 1830s.
—Sara Kehaulani Goo, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025
Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
Those include cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, and doggy style—basically anything that doesn’t place weight directly on the vibrator, like missionary.
—Natalie Arroyo Camacho, StyleCaster, 22 May 2025
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“Missionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/missionary. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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missionary
1 of 2 adjective
missionary
2 of 2 noun
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