evangelicallyadv.
/iːvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)li//ɛvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)li/ In an evangelical manner.
1. As the Gospel requires; in accordance with the spirit of the Gospel; from the point of view of the Gospel.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Gospel > [adverb]
gospelly?1542
gospel-like1576
evangelically1624
evangelicly1678
1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare 14 The least sin, legally considered, is damnable; though evangelically, the greatest of all is pardonable.
1654 J. Trapp Comm. Neh. i. 9 ‘And keep my Commandments’—Evangelically keep them: for with a legal obedience none can.
1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling i. v. 32 Socrates has excellently (I had almost said evangelically) defin'd, the best way of worshipping God, to be the doing what he commands.
1772 J. W. Fletcher Logica Genevensis v. 63 Agreeably to that evangelically-legal proposition.
2. According to the principles of those called Evangelicals.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > [adverb]
evangelically1532
Protestantly1659
Protestantishly1685
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > [adverb] > denying good works or sacraments
evangelically1890
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 639/2 When our euaungelical englishe heretiques fall in acquaintaunce..with some of our marchauntes factours, they mylke them so euaungelically, that, etc.
1890 Dict. National Biogr. XXI. 14/2 His parents were..by no means ‘evangelically’ religious.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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