Pentecostalistn.adj.

1913 N.Y. Times 25 May c5/6 ‘I will never touch another drop of drink as long as I live’, declared a burly, roughly-clad laborer as he stepped into the ring where the Pentecostalists were preaching to the crowd.

1925 Forum (N.Y.) Feb. 152 ‘Pentecostalists’ brought to light our partial neglect of the Holy Ghost.

1956 Gordon Rev. Dec. 131 The Pentecostalists assert that deliverance from physical sickness is provided for in the Atonement.

1972 W. Samarin Tongues Men & Angels x. 201 In the southern sections of the United States..it would not be surprising at all for Pentecostalists..to be influenced by the doctrine of ‘irresistible grace’, that is, the predestinating power of God.

2002 Times 24 July 16/3 The happy-clappies are closer to Baptists and Pentecostalists than to anything recognisably Anglican.

1913 N.Y. Times 25 May c5/6 The burning words of the Pentecostalist preacher seemed to have sobered the big man.

1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour ix. 110 Boisen gives a case-study of a Pentecostalist leader who was an epileptic.

1961 B. R. Wilson Sects & Society i. i. 18 Pentecostalist stress on the Pauline declarations.

1979 R. Blythe View in Winter ix. 300 I'm waiting [on God] not listening. Listening is Pentecostalist, and I find it very hard to do.

1993 B. Wilson in J. McManners Oxf. Hist. Christianity xvii. 601 Glossolalia has been a not uncommon occurrence in Christian history, but always as an extreme and castigated phenomenon until, beginning in 1900, the modern Pentecostalist sects emerged.