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missionaries

noun as in person who aids, does religious work

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Keopuolani converted on her deathbed in 1823, instructing her son Kamehameha II to protect the missionaries.

The missionaries have organized two reunions with the Air Force pilots and Cuban contractors who extracted them.

Romero Ramos contracted the virus from one of the dead Spanish missionaries.

The New Republic demands: “Why did two U.S. missionaries get an Ebola serum while Africans are left to die?”

The second collection—for missionaries in Crimea—takes care of that.

But the great number of Indians still unconverted demands many more missionaries, whom the king is urged to send.

What has been done by the missionaries thus far, or rather what has been attempted.

Methodius and Cyril, who were sent missionaries to the Sclavonians in the ninth century.

This information was received from one of the oldest inhabitants, a native himself, and exceedingly fond of missionaries.

From the ten tribes in captivity in the east went forth missionaries to India, and China, and to other nations around them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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