Definitions
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- adjective Not of or pertaining to
missionaries (spreaders of religion). - adjective of sexual intercourse Not in the
missionary position .
Etymologies
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non- + missionary
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Examples
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He classified the various world religions as a botanist might have classified plants: “ethnic” religions were the nonmissionary reli - gions restricted to a distinct people and a delimited geography; “catholic” religions were those religions that engaged in active missionary labors and that tran - scended racial and geographical limits.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas CARL T. JACKSON 1968
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