Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as evangelical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical.

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  • adjective evangelical

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Examples

  • It’s a little like watching the large number of evangelic conservatives who don’t understand (or simply reject) science trying to drown out the DNA similarity between man and other primates, because they’re afraid of the obvious conclusion.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010

  • Mormonism would seem to me to be an example of the effects of undiluted JHVHism and stripped down evangelic Christianity on the early settlers.

    jhvh is the enemy of god and man 2009

  • Instead there's an evangelic quality in those piercing blue-grey eyes and a vivacity in that wide-mouth smile that lends a passionate zeal to her pessimism.

    Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man' Andrew Anthony 2010

  • It's all fine and well to wise up -- and one can wax evangelic till the cows come home.

    Alps 2010

  • The task required an evangelic commitment by a generation of aviators, and some of those evangelists left their blood on narrow wooden decks in proving their beliefs.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • It's all fine and well to wise up -- and one can wax evangelic till the cows come home.

    Alps 2010

  • The trio of Obama, Axelrod, and Plouffe knew how to organize people in a way that makes Karl Rove's mobilization of ten million new voters (largely fundamentalist and evangelic Christians) that delivered Bush the presidency in 2004 look like a trial run.

    Lessons Learned from the Election of 2008: Looking Back and Looking Forward 2010

  • The task required an evangelic commitment by a generation of aviators, and some of those evangelists left their blood on narrow wooden decks in proving their beliefs.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • The trio of Obama, Axelrod, and Plouffe knew how to organize people in a way that makes Karl Rove's mobilization of ten million new voters (largely fundamentalist and evangelic Christians) that delivered Bush the presidency in 2004 look like a trial run.

    Drew Westen: Lessons Learned from the Election of 2008: Looking Back and Looking Forward 2010

  • It’s a little like watching the large number of evangelic conservatives who don’t understand or simply reject science trying to drown out the DNA similarity between man and other primates, because they’re afraid of the obvious conclusion.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010

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