The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evangelization \E*van`gel*i*za"tion\n. The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
The work of Christ's ministers is evangelization.
--Hobbes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "action of preaching the gospel," noun of action from evangelize. From 1827 as "act of bringing under the influence of the gospel."
Wiktionary
n. The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
Usage examples of "evangelization".
Dim but seemingly unmistakable traces are now discovered of enterprises, not only of exploration and trade, but also of evangelization, reaching along the mainland southward to the shores of New England.
For a hundred years the colonization and evangelization of America were, in the narrowest sense of that large word, Catholic, not Protestant.
In the practical prosecution of this scheme of evangelization, it was found necessary to the due training of the Indians in the holy faith that they should be enslaved, whether or no.
But within the present domain of the United States the entire results of a century and a half of French Catholic colonization and evangelization may be summed up as follows: In Maine, a thousand Catholic Indians still remain, to remind one of the time when, as it is boldly claimed, the whole Indian population of that province were either converted or under Jesuit training.
The serious and not unreasonable fear that these armies of aliens, handled as they manifestly were by a generalship that was quick to seize and fortify in a conspicuous way the strategic points of influence, especially in the new States, might imperil or ruin the institutions and liberties of the young Republic, was stimulated and exploited in the interest of enterprises of evangelization that might counter-work the operations of the invading church.
Their specialty in evangelization has been that of the religious educators of the nation.
New Englander and Scotch-Irishman were to labor in common for the evangelization of the new settlements.
The Christians of Maine, facing tasks of evangelization more than sufficient to occupy all their resources even when well economized and squandering nothing on needless divisions and competitions, have attained to the high grace of saying that sectarian interests must and shall be sacrificed when the paramount interests of the kingdom of Christ require it.
Prefect for the Sacra Congregatio pro Gentium Evangelizatione se de Propaganda Fide -- the legendary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, or De Propaganda Fide.