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missionary-linguist

noun

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  1. A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious…

    A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious conversion.

    • although we do not meet among the missionary linguists that marvellous variety of languages which excites our wonder, yet we find in them abundant evidences of a solid and practical scholarship
    • While he had fulfilled what was expected of him as a missionary linguist, his eagerness for the welfare of the Africans led him to occupy himself with other plans
    • the valuable work of the excellent and indefatigable missionary-linguist, the late Father Marcoux, on the Iroquois language, is about to be published by the Bureau of ethnology.

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