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Definition of Missionary position
1. Noun. A position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples.
Definition of Missionary position
1. Noun. A position for sexual intercourse in which the man and woman face each other, with the man on top. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Missionary Position
Literary usage of Missionary position
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebirth of Korea: The Reawakening of the People, Its Causes, and the Outlook by Hugh Heung-wo Cynn (1920)
"... BA STATEMENT OF missionary position ON KOREAN AGITATION THE political aspect
of the agitation—that is, as to whether Korea shall be entirely independent ..."
2. Linguistic and Oriental Essays: Written from the Year 1840-1903 by Robert Needham Cust (1891)
"XL ON THE missionary position IN EASTERN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. THE political scramble
for this region having temporarily come to an end by a division of the ..."
3. John Mackenzie, South African Missionary and Statesman by William Douglas Mackenzie (1902)
"How will taking this work affect your missionary position and influence, and that
of other missionaries? The circumstances of the ..."
4. The Church at Home and Abroad by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, General Assembly (1888)
"This is no theoretical view of the medical missionary's position. No true missionary
physician would be satisfied with any other, and no missionary society ..."
5. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1907)
"... 3; United Presbyterian, 2; Universalist, 1; Dutch Reformed of Europe, 1;
Unknown 4. missionary position OP DELEGATES: Board secretaries, 29; ..."
6. The Foreign Missionary: An Incarnation of a World Movement by Arthur Judson Brown (1907)
"... but the rules are believed to be not only wise and necessary, but generously
appreciative of the missionary's position, and it is never safe, ..."
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