missionarize

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missionarize (third-person singular simple present missionarizes, present participle missionarizing, simple past and past participle missionarized)

  1. Alternative form of missionaryize
    • 1897, Paul Carus, Buddhism and Its Christian Critics, page 237:
      That religion is dead which does not missionarize. No worse objection can be made to the free-thinkers of to-day, who frequently boast of representing the world-conception of the cultured and the intelligent, than their utter want of the missionarizing spirit.