evangelismn.
/ɪˈvandʒɪlɪz(ə)m/ 1. The preaching or promulgation of the Gospel; performance of the function of an evangelist.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun]
evangelizingc1384
evangelisma1626
evangelization1651
gospelling1652
a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1650) 10 Thus was this Land saved from infidelitie..through the Apostolicall and Miraculous Evangelisme of S. Bartholomew.
1813 Examiner 18 Jan. 35/1 Evangelism or the Announcement of Good Tidings.
1857 T. P. Bunting Life J. Bunting I. vii. 94 The Sunday School..never to be entered..in any spirit but that of an earnest evangelism.
2.
a. Attachment to or profession of evangelical doctrines, i.e. = evangelicalism n. (chiefly in derisive or hostile use).
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Low Church > [noun]
latitudinarianism1676
Low Church1699
Low-Churchisma1787
Hoadlyism1800
evangelicism1807
evangelism1812
Low-Churchmanism1829
evangelicalism1831
peculiarism1835
peculiarity1838
evangelicanism1887
Kensitism1898
1812 Religionism 26 But lectureship requires, Grave face, evangelism and curbed desires.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 96 Attacking what it calls evangelism and puritanism.
1840 Mrs. Gore in New Monthly Mag. 60 52 Taking his sly aim from behind the whited wall of evangelism.
1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. 95 Triumphant party cries and watch-words of evangelism.
b. The faith of the Gospel. (rare.)
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Gospel > [noun] > faithfulness to
evangelicalness1645
evangelicity18..
evangelism1842
evangelicality1857
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) ii. 13 The sure test..of soul-preserving Evangelism or of soul-destroying Heresy.
1888 Spurgeon in Brit. Weekly 3 Feb. 275 Here is an inner core of Evangelism in which all true believers are at one.
Draft additions 1993
b. transferred. Zealous advocacy of a cause or doctrine, proselytizing zeal.
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the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > exhortation
admonishmentc1275
instancec1340
exhortationc1384
exhortc1475
enhortment1477
enhorting1483
exhorting1490
adhortation1536
hortationc1540
exhortary1584
urging1615
cohortation1642
exhortancea1662
adjuration1782
evangelism1908
1908 Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 5/1 Such means [of propaganda] are provided by an elaborate system of political evangelism in the rural districts.
1952 Times 13 Feb. 5/6 The methods used, while generally those of the intense evangelism which is China's most marked characteristic to-day, have been ruthless in crushing those elements.
1986 Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics 26 iv. 347 Two of the most consistent features of his politics, an evangelism and an insistent aesthetic.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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