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missionee

noun

Etymology

From mission + -ee.

  1. learned borrowing from missiō — “a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”
  2. suffixed as missionee — “mission + ee”

Definitions

  1. The person whom a missionary attempts to convert to a religion.

    • […] any supposition that the construction was symmetrical, or that the discourse of the missionary and the missionee is evenly shared must surely be questioned.

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