evangelist
a Protestant minister or layperson who serves as an itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist.
a preacher of the gospel.
(initial capital letter) any of the writers (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) of the four Gospels.
(in the primitive church) a person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
(initial capital letter)Mormon Church. a patriarch.
a person marked by evangelical enthusiasm for or support of any cause.
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How to use evangelist in a sentence
Oveis Gharan hopes that it will now play that role for the geometry of polynomials, for which he has become an eager evangelist.
Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record | Erica Klarreich | October 8, 2020 | Quanta MagazineWe’ve all read, and perhaps experienced, how psilocybin rewires our brains, and so were anxious to hear what the “fungal evangelist” had to say about the environmental impact of tripping.
How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment - Issue 90: Something Green | Mark MacNamara | September 30, 2020 | NautilusThey saw they see the acquisition boosting growth of the Matrix ecosystem as a whole other developer community gets plugged in and — they hope — converted to evangelists for the open network.
Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol | Natasha Lomas | September 30, 2020 | TechCrunchSince his influential work on psilocybin mushrooms in the 1970s, he has grown into an unlikely hybrid between fungal evangelist and tycoon.
The Fungal Evangelist Who Would Save the Bees - Issue 90: Something Green | Merlin Sheldrake | September 23, 2020 | NautilusAmong them is David Hayes, “the Praying Medic,” whom the Atlantic called “one of the best-known QAnon evangelists on the planet.”
Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead. | Abby Ohlheiser | August 26, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
The book was optioned to HBO in 2011, around the time evangelist Harold Camping claimed The Rapture would occur—on May 21, 2011.
From ‘Lost’ to The Rapture: Creators Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta on HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ | Marlow Stern | June 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe predatory return of evangelist-turned-vampire Reverend Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian)?
‘True Blood’ Season 5: Has HBO’s Vampire Drama Lost Its Bite? | Jace Lacob | June 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHer third book, about the world-traveling adventuress, actress and yoga evangelist Indra Devi, will be published by Knopf in 2012.
Each evangelist had his little knot of three or four companions, but these had come with him, and of hearers they had none.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsOn learning her name he knew her instantly by fame as the widely traveled and much beloved prison evangelist.
Prisons and Prayer: Or a Labor of Love | Elizabeth Ryder WheatonFrom that time, she has acted as an itinerant evangelist, preaching in summer in the open air.
The College, the Market, and the Court | Caroline H. DallHe remarked that he had become acquainted with me through the Christian evangelist, published by Bro.
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler | Pardee ButlerThe wife of a traveling evangelist will always be the proper object of pity and sympathy, if pity and sympathy are to be given.
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler | Pardee Butler
British Dictionary definitions for evangelist (1 of 2)
/ (ɪˈvændʒɪlɪst) /
an occasional preacher, sometimes itinerant and often preaching at meetings in the open air
a preacher of the Christian gospel
any zealous advocate of a cause
another word for revivalist (def. 1)
British Dictionary definitions for Evangelist (2 of 2)
/ (ɪˈvændʒɪlɪst) /
any of the writers of the New Testament Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John
a senior official or dignitary of the Mormon Church
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