home mission

noun

: a religious mission conducted within the nation or national territories of the sponsoring church or organization

called also national mission

compare foreign mission

Word History

First Known Use

1811, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for home mission

• abolition
• acquisition
• admonition
• ammunition
• apparition
• apposition
• coalition
• competition
• composition
• definition
• deglutition
• demolition