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missionary

/ˈmɪʃ.əˌnɛɹ.ɪ/ adjective C2
  1. Relating to a (religious) mission.
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I’m so homely nobody will ever want to marry me--unless it might be a foreign missionary.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 18 · C1
I suppose a foreign missionary mightn’t be very particular.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 18 · C1
That is, if I don’t go out as a foreign missionary.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 183 · C1
That would be very romantic, but one would have to be very good to be a missionary, and that would be a stumbling block.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 183 · C1

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