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missionary
English
Etymology
mission +? -ary
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m????n???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m???n(?)??/
- Hyphenation: mis?sion?ary
Noun
missionary (countable and uncountable, plural missionaries)
- One who is sent on a mission.
- A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed.
- (derogatory) A religious messenger.
- (uncountable) The missionary position for sexual intercourse.
Derived terms
- antimissionary
- missionary position
Translations
Adjective
missionary (not comparable)
- Relating to a (religious) mission
Translations
See also
- missionary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Missionary (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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witness
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) witnesse
Etymology
From Middle English witnesse, from Old English ?ewitnes, equivalent to wit +? -ness. Cognate with Middle Dutch wetenisse (“witness, testimony”), Old High German gewiznessi (“testimony”), Icelandic vitni (“witness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?tn?s/, /?w?tn?s/
- Rhymes: -?tn?s, -?tn?s
- Hyphenation: wit?ness
Noun
witness (countable and uncountable, plural witnesses)
- (uncountable) Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
- She can bear witness, since she was there at the time.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV, Scene ii[1]:
- May we, with the warrant of womanhood and the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
- (countable) One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
- As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.
- c. 1589-93, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene ii[7]:
- […] thyself art witness— I am betrothed.
- c. 1786, Robert Hall, A Reverie
- Upon my looking round, I was a witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.
- (countable, law) Someone called to give evidence in a court.
- (countable) One who is called upon to witness an event or action, such as a wedding or the signing of a document.
- (countable) Something that serves as evidence; a sign or token.
- Laban said to Jacob, […] This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
witness (third-person singular simple present witnesses, present participle witnessing, simple past and past participle witnessed)
- (transitive) To furnish proof of, to show.
- This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.
- 1667: round he throws his baleful eyes / That witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 ll. 56-7
- (transitive) To take as evidence.
- (transitive) To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
- He witnessed the accident.
- 1801, Robert Hall, On Modern Infidelity
- This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we be so unfortunate as ever to witness the triumph of modern infidelity
- 1803 (first published), John Marshall, The Life of George Washington
- General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.
- (intransitive, construed with to or for) To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
- 1998, "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, volume 6, page 842
- Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.
- 1998, "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, volume 6, page 842
- To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
- to witness a bond or a deed
Synonyms
- certify
Translations
Anagrams
- wisents
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