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Definition of Foreign mission

1. Noun. An organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work.

2. Noun. A permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreign Mission

foreign debts foreign direct investment foreign draft foreign exchange foreign exchange market foreign exchange markets foreign exchanges foreign key foreign keys foreign language

foreign languages foreign legion foreign medical graduates foreign minister foreign ministers foreign mission (current term) foreign office foreign policies foreign policy foreign professional personnel

foreign protein foreign protein therapy foreign serum foreign terrorist organization foreign tongue foreign tongues foreigner foreigners foreignise foreignism

Literary usage of Foreign mission

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The Convention has its domestic and foreign mission boards and has engaged zealously and successfully in every line of denominational work. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"From the circuit decree certain heirs at law of testator and the legatees Furman University, Southern Baptist Seminary, and foreign mission Board at ..."

3. A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands by Hiram Bingham (1849)
"Origin of the Mission—foreign mission school—Death of the first Convert—Ordination of Missionaries—Appointment of assistant Missionaries—Mission Church ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"In 1918 the first band of erected 1702; reestablished 1840; residence, Yun- missionaries from the foreign mission Society of nan; vicar apostolic, ..."

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