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missionary-linguist
A missionary who seeks to study a peoples language in order to facilitate conversion.

although we do not meet among the missionary linguists that marvellous variety of languages which excites our wonder, yet we find in them abundant evidences of a solid and practical scholarship

See Also: missionary linguistics

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