Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The work of a colporteur.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The work carried on by colporteurs; the distribution by gift or sale of Bibles and other religious literature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
distribution orselling of publications via carriers, particularlydevotional literature
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Cuisine et littérature de colportage en France au XVIIIème siècle.”
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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“Cuisine et littérature de colportage en France au XVIIIème siècle.”
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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You may think it a slight thing to prepare a lucky volume, and, tapping Fame familiarly on the shoulder, engage her to undertake its colportage throughout the different countries of the globe.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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Bapt. state conv. 1879-81; chaplain, C.S. A.; gen'l supt. army colportage for N.C. troops, 1862-65; Episcopalian; later Baptist.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924
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As soon as it was practicable, after the emancipation of the negroes of North Carolina, together with the Negroes of the rest of the Southern States, the American Baptist Publication Society, with headquarters in Philadelphia, began its colportage and missionary work among them.
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They agreed to give support in part to a missionary to do Sunday School mission and colportage work in that section of the State.
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We not only sold Bibles, but managed every other phase of our missionary work, and yet it was real colportage work.
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On Monday I went back to my colportage, but that night I was taken with a sharp attack of bronchitis, with high fever, and obliged to keep my room at the hotel.
The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901
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The figures do not include the large sums expended annually in the colportage work of Bible and tract societies, in Sunday school missions, and in the building of churches and parsonages.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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Its object being to promote evangelical religion by means of the Bible, printing press, colportage and the Sunday school makes it an institution unfounded upon financial consideration to benefit a few.
hernesheir commented on the word colportage
Cheap popular literature originally sold by hawkers or itinerants called colporteurs.
September 23, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word colportage
Definition should include perfoming covers of Cole Porter's music.
September 23, 2009
sionnach commented on the word colportage
See colporteur.
September 24, 2009