I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
missionary position
religious/revolutionary/missionary etc zeal
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He approached the job with missionary zeal.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
catholic
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Yes, Imelda was on a mission, and Carla knew only too well the reputations of Catholic missionaries .
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The area had been visited by traders from ancient Rome, and, in later times, by an occasional Catholic missionary .
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She left the company, but never Malanje, becoming a Roman Catholic missionary in 1969.
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They also permitted Catholic missionaries to preach publicly and even assigned soldiers to protect them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the missionary position
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sister Courtney was a missionary in Nicaragua for 15 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At Kemmendine, there were two experienced missionaries, men of outstanding ability, character and devotion.
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Eventually unmarried women found vocational outlets as missionaries.
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Gambling and crowd disorder was customary but there is no question that Clarke and his boys were missionaries.
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In October 1927, the young missionary was steaming at 15-20 knots towards Rangoon.
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In the basement meeting room, he placed me on a bench be-tween two other missionaries.
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In the persecution of 1665, he was banished with other missionaries to Canton.
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No wonder the Twelve made it their priority, and the nameless missionaries of 8:4 took it as their great weapon.
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The missionaries held on to my arms.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
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The document on missionary activity seemed a likely occasion.
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Most of his missionary activity took place north of the line between Dublin and Galway.
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If anyone is interested in receiving more information on praying for missionaries or missionary activity please contact me.
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He minted coins and his patronage of continental missionary activity is a noticeable feature of his reign.
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Similar views concerning conversion are expressed by Simone Weil who maintains that much missionary activity is both mistaken and dangerous.
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Nowhere is this truer than in Wenzhou, a prospering port with a history of missionary activity .
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The aim of these articles is to inform the Fellowship of missionary activity , both at home and overseas.
position
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Presumably the missionary position in coitus would have its dangers.
work
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Its brief is longer term and written to include missionary work , promotion and oversight of independent interoperability testing and branding.
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Tesla asked if Westinghouse proposed to continue his missionary work for the alternating-current system he had invented.
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It was defended by careful missionary work , by books of edification and by the practice of the pilgrimages to Jerusalem.
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This letter sets a tone for much missionary work in the early Middle Ages.
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One of the most effective ways Satan has to cripple missionary work is to attack the body of the missionary.
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As a result various things, such as missionary work , now fall under a word which directs disfavour at them.
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It was due to his influence and suggestion that many able deaf men were appointed to do valuable missionary work amongst their fellows.
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The island had responded particularly to the fervent missionary work of the itinerant Baptist preachers in the early years of the century.
zeal
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Professor Papert deserves high marks for missionary zeal .
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The eyes of Mr. Morrissey gleam with a missionary zeal that shames into submission the cringing doubts of those yet unconvinced.
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Whatever the job at Disney, it was approached with missionary zeal .
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The highest court of all is still the Football Association with their brocaded traditions, honest principles and missionary zeal .
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A new bureaucracy, the darling of the administration that establishes it, has a missionary zeal about its function.
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But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the same time missionary monks helped to conquer Siberia.
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But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely.
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From the start her charm and her missionary addresses captivated her hearers and young people were challenged.
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His teacher, who had founded the missionary school, had high hopes for his star student.
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It is intended that these articles should be in addition to current missionary writing which appears in the magazine each month.
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Priests and laymen of all three religions organized educational institutions and missionary propaganda.
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Yet here is a dark continent on our own doorstep, crying out for missionary endeavour.