missionary

Related to missionary: missionary position

the missionary position

A sexual position in which the partner who is penetrating lies on top of the other and faces them. The term is often said to have originated with Christian missionaries' supposed promotion of the position among native tribal peoples as the proper one, but the phrase likely originated as the result of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey conflating anthropologists' reports. The missionary position is probably the most popular sexual position, or at least the most well known.
See also: missionary, position
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • the missionary position
  • at the helm
  • at the helm/tiller
  • shwench
  • dream team
  • balls-out
  • be at the helm
  • balls to the wall
  • alive (live) and kicking (well)
  • jabroni
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They claimed that the tour, which combined sight-seeing with missionary sermons, is in violation of the law that forbids offering monetary benefit to get people to convert out of their religion.
'The Marina declared 19 missionary routes on 31 January 2019 to further connect various islands between the Central Nautical Highway to the Eastern Nautical Highway or from the Western Nautical Highway to the Central Nautical Highway.
The BI likewise said that Fox had already spent 27 years in the country as a missionary and according to them, ordinarily, following the MOA between the BI and the CBCP, foreign missionaries stay in the country for only 10 years.
Pahilga said this is the third time that the 72-year-old provincial superior of Sisters of Our Lady of Sion is seeking an extension since she has been working as a missionary in the country for the last 27 years.
'Our legal team saw that approving the extension of her missionary visa will be inconsistent with the findings cited in her deportation order.'
By portraying Hawaiian noblewomen as formidable protagonists rather than as passive recipients of the Gospel, Thigpen distinguishes her book from a lot of old-fashioned missionary scholarship.
In chapter four ("Containing Transgression"), Ballantyne examines the case of William Yale, a missionary who came to New Zealand in 1828, but was forced to leave in 1836 when it became known that he had coerced a number of Maori boys and young men to have sex with him.
Some Blacks were members of Baptist churches because of missionary endeavors on plantations.
An important reason for such missionary attrition is the overall decline of churches in Korea, which represents a waning support base.
In recent research, the shift from missionary encounters in the global South to a reversed mission by Africans to countries of the northern hemisphere has received increasing attention, particularly for the intercultural dimension of missionary practice.
In incorporating both aspects of missionary culture, there are five components that impact the identity of the missionaries.
Missionaries are a unique population because individuals, couples, and families devoted to a missionary cause for religious and/ or spiritual reasons are often commissioned to live in international contexts where they may be faced with a myriad of interactive and dynamic stressors.
The chapters are organised in three sections outlining missionary structures and networks, missionary methods, and the experience of converts.
Excuse me for the "economics speak," but missionary service, like education, is an investment in human capital.
The Missionary education was more secular than the education under Government in the context of Alexander Duff's strategy.