evangelizeverb
UK usually evangelise uk/ɪˈvæn.dʒə.laɪz/us/ɪˈvæn.dʒə.laɪz/evangelize verb (OPINIONS)
[ I ] to talk about how good you think something is:
I wish she would stop evangelizing about the virtues of free market economics.
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- undertone
- waffle
- whisper
- yap
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evangelize verb (RELIGION)
[ T ] to try to persuade people to become Christians
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Religious practices
- agarbatti
- anoint
- baptize
- bless
- celebrate
- confess
- confession
- flagellate
- genuflect
- genuflection
- go into/enter the church idiom
- hadj
- mortification of the flesh idiom
- observance
- pilgrimage
- purdah
- reborn
- revival
- revival meeting
- veil
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evangelism
noun [ U ] uk/ɪˈvæn.dʒə.lɪ.zəm/us/ɪˈvæn.dʒə.lɪ.zəm/