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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
evangelical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
church
▪ Hostile, she thought. ` Well, there's a lot of little evangelical churches in La Perla.
▪ He was a highly successful businessman, a leader in a local evangelical church.
▪ One exception, however, is the growing number of evangelical churches, which are very active in radio and television.
▪ Now the Northern evangelical churches were free and voluntary, ready with their own resources.
▪ Oh, right, this is the Tonelli family that single-handedly started an evangelical church in Buffalo.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kemp is very evangelical about eating healthy food.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As an aristocrat Hartington was not untypical in regarding them as evangelical fanatics who needed restraining.
▪ Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 percent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects.
▪ In numerous races, evangelical voters were of decisive influence in deciding the outcome.
▪ Smart assumes a prophetic as well as an evangelical mission.
▪ The evangelical community has expressed concerns regarding several of the clauses.
▪ Then there is sectarian competition - over what is evangelical, too evangelical, not evangelical enough.
▪ They were the rational, atheistic two, lost to the evangelical religion of their father.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evangelical

Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, n. One of evangelical principles.

Evangelical

Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, a.

  1. Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.

  2. Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.

  3. Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; pre["e]minently orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of ``Justification by Faith alone;'' the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religious bodies not regarded as orthodox.

  4. Having or characterized by a zealous, crusading enthusiasm for a cause.

  5. Adhering to a form of Christianity characterized by a conservative interpretation of the bible, but disavowing the label 'bdfundamentalist`'b8. Evangelical Alliance, an alliance for mutual strengthening and common work, comprising Christians of different denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool, England, in 1845. Evangelical Church.

    1. The Protestant Church in Germany.

    2. A church founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817.

      Evangelical Union, a religious sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also Morisonians.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
evangelical

1530s "of or pertaining to the gospel" (adj.), also "a Protestant," especially a German one (n.); with -al (1) + evangelic (early 15c.), from Old French evangelique, from Late Latin evangelicus, from evangelista (see evangelist).\n

\nFrom mid-18c. in reference to a tendency or school in Protestantism seeking to promote conversion and emphasizing salvation by faith, the sacrifice of Christ, and a strictly religious life. As "member of the 'evangelical' party in a church" from 1804. Related: Evangelically; Evangelicalism (1812).

Wiktionary
evangelical

a. 1 Pertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament 2 Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general. 3 Protestant; specifically, designating European churches which were originally Lutheran rather than Calvinist. 4 Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism). 5 Pertaining to Islamic groups that are dedicated to dawah and preaching the Quran and sunnah. 6 zealously enthusiastic. n. 1 A member of an evangelical church 2 An advocate of evangelicalism

WordNet
evangelical
  1. adj. relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels; "evangelical Christianity"; "an ultraconservative evangelical message"

  2. of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament

  3. marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause [syn: evangelistic]

Wikipedia
Evangelical (disambiguation)

An Evangelical is an adherent of Evangelicalism, the Protestant religious movement with origins in Methodism.

Evangelical or Evangelicals may also refer to:

  • Pertaining to the gospel, the central message of Christianity
  • Pertaining to Protestantism, the branch of Christianity which broke from the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth century
  • Low church, a reform movement within the Church of England

Usage examples of "evangelical".

The candidate who aspired to the virtue of evangelical poverty, abjured, at his first entrance into a regular community, the idea, and even the name, of all separate or exclusive possessions.

I fear I will dissolve in light, grow addled and vague, like Czerny, or foolishly evangelical like Ristelli.

But though uttered by a Roman cardinal, even such an expression can hardly be termed violent when applied to the synod which established free elections to bishoprics, suppressed the right of bestowing the pallium, of exacting annates and payments to the papal chancery, and which was endeavouring to restore the papacy to evangelical poverty.

He found it difficult to realize that this man, who now sat beside him in the stalls of a fashionable London concert-room, was precisely the same one who, clad in the long flowing white robes of his Order, had stood before the Altar in the chapel at Dariel, a stately embodiment of evangelical authority, intoning the Seven Glorias!

The priest imagined busloads of pilgrims bent on divinely inspired chastisements and evangelical devotional fever, hailing the advent of Mother Mary, saluting a cardboard ephemeral church, Ann as substitute for authentic worship, for the mundane daily variety of faith that composed his own enervated ministry.

Then followed, in successive tides, from England, the copious hymnody of the Methodist revival, both Calvinist and Wesleyan, of the Evangelical revival, and now at last of the Oxford revival, with its affluence of translations from the ancient hymnists, as well as of original hymns.

Evangelical Congregation of the Air will get free gratis a genuine leatherette hymn book so you can sing along with Sister Rosella and the Evangelical Choir.

If we may give credit to the vehement declamations of Cyprian, there were too many among his African brethren, who, in the execution of their charge, violated every precept, not only of evangelical perfection, but even of moral virtue.

Its avowed aim was to laud every Rationalistic book to the skies, but to reproach every evangelical publication as unworthy the support, or even the notice, of rational beings.

It now becomes necessary to take a survey of the present theological movements, and to show in what relations the Rationalistic and evangelical thinkers stand to each other.

What seemed particularly remarkable was the sound evangelical faith of the Captain and his family, and the unexceptionable doctrines that were preached by their minister.

Canadian sociologist Reginald Bibby has shown that fewer than 10 percent of those who join evangelical churches come from outside the evangelical community, and most of that 10 percent usually come from other churches or through intermarriage.

He was buried in a bookit was one of those evangelical novels theorizing that God lets some people into heaven but leaves others behindand he seemed fairly engrossed in it, perhaps wondering if he would be in the former group or the latter.

Gospel, which perpetrates an inversion of its spirit, Bartleffs variation is genuinely evangelical in inspiration, as befits the Erasmian fool in Christ.

Thus despite pathological fears of Catholicism among nineteenth-century American evangelical Protestants, since the 1820s a political alliance has existed on and off between the Jacksonian tradition in the South and West and sections of the Catholic Irish in the Northeast.