Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An institution for the training of missionaries.
- noun A school for religious and sometimes secular instruction, either
- noun intended to provide for the poorer classes and supported in whole or in part by charity, or
- noun conducted by missionary agents in a foreign field.
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Examples
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He was also a scholar, musician, raconteur, mission-school Christian, former political prisoner, and—according to his enemies—a self-promoting charlatan.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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He was also a scholar, musician, raconteur, mission-school Christian, former political prisoner, and—according to his enemies—a self-promoting charlatan.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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He was also a scholar, musician, raconteur, mission-school Christian, former political prisoner, and—according to his enemies—a self-promoting charlatan.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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After a period of mission-school life he returns to his country-fashion, and deals with the fetish connected with it very much in the same way as the suburban agnostic deals with his religion, i.e. he removes from it all the inconvenient portions.
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He sees the white man is his ruling man, rich, powerful, and honoured, and so he imitates him, and goes to the mission-school classes to read and write, and as soon as an African learns to read and write he turns into a clerk.
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It is divided into two chambers, one in which the children who attend the mission-school stay, and wherein there is a fire, and one evidently the abode of the teacher.
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"But did Miss Stanley really think of going to teach in a foreign mission-school?"
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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One had been in California 25 years, but had attended mission-school nowhere except in Watsonville.
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 3, March, 1896 Various
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Bobby's friend had been once to the mission-school.
The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young Richard Newton
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He was to send for her to come an 'teach in a mission-school if she wanted to go -- an' she al'ays said she did -- after she'd graduated in the normal.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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