Missionary-linguist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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"
Example
More examples"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"
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