missioneering

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missioneering (uncountable)

  1. The religious work done by missionaries.
    • 1992, Gordon Brotherston, Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature, page 24:
      […] and they plotted their territory of islands and inlets by means of their celebrated totem poles, which, like the older corpus of petroglyphs, link the seat and precedence of family dynasties to a history that runs from creation to missioneering by Russian Orthodox priests.
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