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missionary

2 adjective
     
missionary2 [only before noun]
1 relating to the work of missionaries:
missionary work
a missionary hospital
2

missionary zeal

if you do something with missionary zeal, you do it with great eagerness, because you believe strongly that it is a good thing to do:
a young English teacher who taught poetry with missionary zeal
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