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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : mish-uh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɪʃ ən |
Definition of mission
Origin :- 1590s, "a sending abroad," originally of Jesuits, from Latin missionem (nominative missio) "act of sending, a despatching; a release, a setting at liberty; discharge from service, dismissal," noun of action from past participle stem of mittere "to send," oldest form probably *smittere, of unknown origin.
- Diplomatic sense of "body of persons sent to a foreign land on commercial or political business" is from 1620s. In American English, sometimes "an embassy" (1805). Meaning "dispatch of an aircraft on a military operation" (1929, American English) later extended to spacecraft flights (1962), hence, mission control (1964). As a style of furniture, said to be imitative of furniture in the buildings of original Spanish missions to North America, it is attested from 1900.
- noun person's task, responsibility
- Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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- Advancing these ideals is the mission that created our Nation.
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- The hours seemed like days to George while Hardy was on his mission.
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- It is our mission, as the plants and the lower living things have theirs.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- Above all, our noble jester succeeds in his mission of laugh-producing.
- Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
- As it happened, you worked in quite well with the mission at first.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- No Miss Perry appeared; and it seemed, at first, that the mission boys were to have no teacher.
- Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
- He had just left a conference of high officers, and he came upon a mission.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- But Dick remembered his mission, and his resolve to perform it was not shaken a particle.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
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