Missionary vs Charity - What's the difference?
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One who is sent on a mission.
A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed.
(pejorative) A religious messenger.
(uncountable) A common position for undertaking sexual intercourse.
(archaic) Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men.
In general, an attitude of kindness and understanding towards others, now especially suggesting generosity.
(uncountable) Benevolence to others less fortunate than ourselves; the providing of goods or money to those in need.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (countable) The goods or money given to those in need.
(countable) An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose.
As a noun missionary
is one who is sent on a mission.As a proper noun charity is
.missionary
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(missionaries)- A Muslim missionary was just trying to convert me to Islam .
See also
* (wikipedia "missionary") *charity
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- Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity . — John Mitchell Mason
citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}