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- noun Plural form of
colporter .
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Examples
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Publication societies sold through colporters and missionaries religious literature adapted to the special needs of the freedmen and religious workers organized in churches circles devoted to the study of Christian doctrine and the Bible.
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When caught the colporters were severely punished.
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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After being printed in Holland the books were smuggled into France _sous le manteau_, as the expression is, and sold at absurd rates by colporters.
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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When caught the colporters were severely punished.
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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After being printed in Holland the books were smuggled into France sous le manteau, as the expression is, and sold at absurd rates by colporters.
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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During the interim of the Convention Revs. Joseph Perry and M.C. Ransom were appointed by the Executive Board missionary colporters, one for the western section of the State and the other for the eastern section.
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Page 94 for the "colored people" and the employment of missionaries, colporters, etc., to the colored people, which has resulted in the organization of associations and conventions by the Negroes in more than half of the States in the Union.
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Page 117 with State and district Boards in the employment of fourteen other missionaries and colporters, and aiding other feeble points with gifts of books and Bibles and other literature.
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The remainder consist of medical mission-societies; of bodies partly philanthropic, partly religious; and of publication-societies whose colporters are missionaries.
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Their calling in some sense forced them to become colporters of ideas.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893
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