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    • IPA: /ɪˈvændʒəlɪst/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.evangelist {en}

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (Christianity) An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
  2. (Bible) A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually Evangelist.
  3. (primitive Church) A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
  4. (Mormon Church) A patriarch
  5. A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.

Exempel

  • Booth, William (1829-1912) English evangelist; founder and first general of the Salvation Army ... his subordinates being expected to give him unquestioning obedience.
  • Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message. The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over the superstitious lower orders.
  • The film implies that the evangelist, as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.
  • Nokia hired a crew of inventive open source evangelists in 2009 with orders to dream up entirely new devices. (BusinessWeek)

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