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Answer for the clue "Peddler of religious literature ", 10 letters:
colporteur

Word definitions for colporteur in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colporteur \Col"por`teur\ (?; 277), n. [F. colporteur one who carries on his neck, fr. colporter to carry on one's neck; col (L. collum) neck + porter (L. portare) to carry.] A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A peddler of publications, especially of religious books

Usage examples of colporteur.

A peaceful farming country this, but an unremunerative field, one would say, for the colporteur and the book-agent.

His Map and Description of New England was published in 1616, and he became a colporteur of this, beseeching everywhere a hearing for his noble scheme.