Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Evangelical; designed or tending to evangelize; pertaining to an evangelist or his labors: as, evangelistic methods; evangelistic efforts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize; evangelical.
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- adjective Pertaining to
evangelism orevangelists ; spreading the gospel. - adjective Pertaining to the Evangelical school.
- adjective colloquial Characterised by enthusiasm and a desire to communicate belief.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause
- adjective relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do not confine that thought of service, and feeding, and tending, to what we call evangelistic and religious work.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Raised in evangelistic hellfire, the teenager is violent, caustic, unruly, and cruelly intuitive.
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There is something magnificently alluring about all of this, and part of me thinks that a movie like this probably works to achieve a certain evangelistic purpose.
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In place of the former system, the Fundamentalists have created a system designed for short-term evangelistic work by a workforce with rapid turnover.
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In place of the former system, the Fundamentalists have created a system designed for short-term evangelistic work by a workforce with rapid turnover.
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The nineteenth century was worse, if anything, than earlier periods, for it furthered what might be called the evangelistic slant toward novel-reading, the attitude that neatly classified this form of self-indulgence with dancing, card-playing, hard drinking, and loose living of every description.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919
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It does not appear that, after their stay in Ephesus, Aquila and his wife were closely attached to Paul's person, and certainly they did not take any part as members of what we may call his evangelistic staff.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Russian prisoners could request additional religious materials, such as evangelistic works, psalters,
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In a sense, this movie is "evangelistic", but for that non-dogmatic perspective that emphasizes not dogma but love, family, relationship, compassion, loyalty, and other things that are not the sole property of Christians, and which fundamentalist dogma is sometimes even a hindrance to.
Bucket List of the Evangelical Nation James F. McGrath 2008
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In a sense, this movie is "evangelistic", but for that non-dogmatic perspective that emphasizes not dogma but love, family, relationship, compassion, loyalty, and other things that are not the sole property of Christians, and which fundamentalist dogma is sometimes even a hindrance to.
Archive 2008-07-01 James F. McGrath 2008
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