|
|
Definition of Colportage
1. n. The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.
Definition of Colportage
1. Noun. the selling of devotional literature ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colportage
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colportage
Literary usage of Colportage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Meliora (1861)
"colportage, its History and Relation to Home and Foreign Evangelization. ...
Hence we regard colportage as not only supplementary but indispensable to the ..."
2. Christian Work in Latin America (1917)
"(2) A colportage Association.—Colporteurs should be employed to sell books ...
A Latin-American colportage Association is an indispensable corollary to the ..."
3. The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Susannah Spurgeon, Joseph Harrald (1899)
"On the completion of the Pastors' College, the colportage depot was transferred
... METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE colportage DEPOT, COLLEGE BUILDINGS. ..."
4. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"... Movement—The Monka—How the Reformation was carried on Unlearned Believer—The
Old and the New Doctors—Printing and Literature—Bookselling and colportage. ..."
Other Resources:
