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evangelical

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As an adjective, evangelical means pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general. As a noun, it means a member of an evangelical church.

Meanings of evangelical

11 meanings

adjective

  1. Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.

  2. Pertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament.

  3. Protestant; specifically Lutheran and Calvinist churches in continental Europe as well as their offshoots in North America.

  4. Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism).

  5. Pertaining to Islamic groups that are dedicated to dawah and preaching the Quran and sunnah.

  6. Zealously enthusiastic.

  7. Relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels

    “evangelical Christianity”

    “an ultraconservative evangelical message”

  8. Of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament

  9. Marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause

    Similar: evangelistic

noun

  1. A member of an evangelical church

  2. An advocate of evangelicalism

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause
evangelistic

Words that rhyme with evangelical

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