evangelist
Americannoun
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a Protestant minister or layperson who serves as an itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist.
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a preacher of the gospel.
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(initial capital letter) any of the writers (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) of the four Gospels.
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(in the primitive church) a person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
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(initial capital letter) a patriarch.
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a person marked by evangelical enthusiasm for or support of any cause.
noun
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an occasional preacher, sometimes itinerant and often preaching at meetings in the open air
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a preacher of the Christian gospel
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any zealous advocate of a cause
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another word for revivalist
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any of the writers of the New Testament Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John
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a senior official or dignitary of the Mormon Church
Etymology
Origin of evangelist
1125–75; Middle English evangeliste < Latin evangelista < Greek euangelistḗs. See evangel 1, -ist
Example Sentences
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He did hilarious impressions of people like his cousin Fagin Springer, a singing evangelist from Virginia, and the tough old cowhands on his uncle’s Montana ranch.
From Los Angeles Times
It was founded in Ireland by a Scottish evangelist in 1897 and is built around ministers - referred to by the church as workers - spreading New Testament teachings through word-of-mouth.
From BBC
Industry prognosticators and AI evangelists have spent months foretelling the toll Anthropic and other sophisticated AI tools would exact on software-as-a-service companies that were darlings of the previous internet era.
When AI evangelists preach the importance of prompt engineering, this is what they’re talking about.
This bitcoin evangelist says inflation is far exceeding official statistics — by tracking ribeye prices.
From MarketWatch
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