Missionary vs Preach - What's the difference?
missionary | preach |
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.
To give a sermon.
* , chapter=3
, title= To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
* Bible, Isa. lxi. 1
To advise or recommend earnestly.
* Shakespeare
To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
* Southey
(obsolete) A religious discourse.
As a noun missionary
is one who is sent on a mission.As a verb preach is
to preach, preachify.missionary
English
Noun
(missionaries)- A Muslim missionary was just trying to convert me to Islam .
See also
* (wikipedia "missionary") *preach
English
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- A local Muslim used to preach from the Quran and hadith.
- The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
- My master preaches patience to him.
- As ye are preached .
See also
* praughtNoun
(es)- (Hooker)