English Dictionary
Definition of “evangelically”
Word Frequency
evangelical (ˌiːvænˈdʒɛlɪkəl
) (Christianity)
Definitions
adjective
- of, based upon, or following from the Gospels
- denoting or relating to any of certain Protestant sects or parties, which emphasize the importance of personal conversion and faith in atonement through the death of Christ as a means of salvation
- another word for evangelistic
noun
- an upholder of evangelical doctrines or a member of an evangelical sect or party, esp the Low-Church party of the Church of England
Derived Forms
ˌevanˈgelicalism nounˌevanˈgelically adverb
Example Sentences Including 'evangelically'
Brooding introvert Gordon Brown waits for ever to shuffle into the limelight vacated by his evangelically extrovert prime minister.Times, Sunday Times (2004)
It is not just businesses that insist evangelically upon the uptake of IT.Spiked
Like Gordie and I both have pretty heavy personal ambitions for The Realm, but that ambition is also evangelically focused.In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
Yet those whose education is confined to card schools continue to exhort evangelically the wonder of these bets.Glasgow Herald (2001)
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