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evangelically, adv.|iːvæn-, ɛvænˈdʒɛlɪkəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In an evangelical manner.
1. As the Gospel requires; in accordance with the spirit of the Gospel; from the point of view of the Gospel.
1624Gee Foot out of Snare 14 The least sin, legally considered, is damnable; though evangelically, the greatest of all is pardonable. 1654Trapp Comm. Nehemiah i. 9 ‘And keep my Commandments’—Evangelically keep them: for with a legal obedience none can. 1673Lady's Call. i. v. 32 Socrates has excellently (I had almost said evangelically) defin'd, the best way of worshipping God, to be the doing what he commands. 1772Fletcher Logica Genev. 63 Agreeably to that evangelically-legal proposition.
2. According to the principles of those called Evangelicals.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 639/2 When our euaungelical englishe heretiques fall in acquaintaunce..with some of our marchauntes factours, they mylke them so euaungelically, that, etc. 1890Dict. Nat. Biog. XXI. 14/2 His parents were..by no means ‘evangelically’ religious. |