Biblewoman

plural Biblewomen · alternative Bible woman · alternative Bible-woman

1. historicalChristianityA local woman who aided foreign female missionaries in their mission work.

   At the time of the raid the Biblewoman happened to be outside the city, but instead of joining the crowds who were fleeing into the country, within two hours she had made her way back to do what she could to help the wounded.

   1939, Winifred I. Coxon, “In Central China: Hankow”, in Christians in Action: A Record of Work in War-time China by Seven Missionaries with a Map, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 71

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   It is seen by the children and as it comes closer they run shouting to greet the woman missionary, the Indian Biblewoman and her untrained Companion and the young widow on probation for Biblewomen’s training who clamber out of the cart and stretch their aching limbs after journeying all day first in a very ancient bus and then the last few miles by bullock cart.

   1960 April, Eileen Bending, “Evangelism in South Indian Villages”, in A Monthly Letter About Evangelism, number 4, page 1