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evangelism|ɪˈvændʒɪlɪz(ə)m|
[f. evangel + -ism, as if ad. Gr. *εὐαγγελισµός, f. εὐαγγελίζεσθαι: see evangelize. Cf. F. évangélisme. In sense 2 f. evangel-ic + -ism.]
1. The preaching or promulgation of the Gospel; performance of the function of an evangelist.
a1626Bacon New Atl. (1650) 10 Thus was this Land saved from infidelitie..through the Apostolicall and Miraculous Evangelisme of S. Bartholomew. 1813Examiner 18 Jan. 35/1 Evangelism or the Announcement of Good Tidings. 1857T. B. 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 (chiefly in derisive or hostile use). b. The faith of the Gospel. (rare.)
a.1812Religionism 26 But lectureship requires, Grave face, evangelism and curbed desires. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 96 Attacking what it calls evangelism and puritanism. 1840Mrs. Gore in New Monthly Mag. LX. 52 Taking his sly aim from behind the whited wall of evangelism. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. II. 95 Triumphant party cries and watch-words of evangelism.
b.1842Faber Provincial Lett. (1844) ii. 13 The sure test..of soul-preserving Evangelism or of soul-destroying Heresy. 1888Spurgeon in British Weekly 3 Feb. 275 Here is an inner core of Evangelism in which all true believers are at one.
Add:[1.] b. transf. Zealous advocacy of a cause or doctrine, proselytizing zeal.
1908Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 5/1 Such means [of propaganda] are provided by an elaborate system of political evangelism in the rural districts. 1952Times 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. 1986Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics XXVI. iv. 347 Two of the most consistent features of his politics, an evangelism and an insistent aesthetic. |