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missionieren — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • outreach noun Efforts by an organization to connect with and provide services to people in the community.
  • proselytize verb To try to persuade someone to adopt your religion.

Senses

missionieren is used for these senses in English:

  • outreach (intransitive) To provide charitable or religious services to people who would otherwise not have access to those services.
  • proselytize (ambitransitive, broadly) To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so.

proselytize — full definition

  1. verb To try to persuade someone to adopt your religion.
  2. verb To force someone to change their religion.
  3. verb To try to win people over to a belief, cause, lifestyle or organization that has nothing to do with religion.
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