mission sacré
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French [Term?].
Noun
[edit]- civilizing mission: a political rationale for military intervention and for colonization purporting to facilitate dissemination "Western" civilization to what they perceived as heathen, primitive cultures.
Further reading
[edit]- “mission sacré” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.