denoting, resembling, or relating to evangelists or their methods and attitudes
evangelistic zeal
2.
zealously advocating a cause
3. (often capital)
of or relating to all or any of the four Evangelists
Derived forms
evangelistically (eˌvangeˈlistically)
adverb
evangelistic in American English
(iˌvændʒəˈlɪstɪk)
adjective
1.
pertaining to evangelists or to preachers of the gospel
2.
evangelical
3.
seeking to evangelize; striving to convert sinners
4.
designed or fitted to evangelize
5. (often cap)
of or pertaining to the four Evangelists
Derived forms
evangelistically
adverb
Word origin
[1835–45; evangelist + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: catch-up, crosshead, daisy chain, ecumenical, serial-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'evangelistic' in a sentence
evangelistic
The strength tends to lie in its evangelistic zeal.
Christianity Today (2000)
To be identified with the foreign barbarians was a distinct evangelistic liability.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
If it all sounds a little evangelistic, it is.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The village chiefs, too, are evangelistic in their praise for the pump.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A divide between the pragmatic and the evangelistic could be more useful.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He still has regular therapy and is almost evangelistic talking about its benefits.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
An eager lady approaches a man coming into an evangelistic church.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The $29,411 tour was billed to the ministry as an 'evangelistic function of the president'.