evangelicalism
Americannoun
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evangelical doctrines or principles.
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adherence to evangelical principles or doctrines or to an evangelical church or party.
Etymology
Origin of evangelicalism
First recorded in 1825–35; evangelical + -ism
Vocabulary lists containing evangelicalism
Example Sentences
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For most of the history of evangelicalism, Israel was a distant concern.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Carter’s progressive evangelicalism was very much in that tradition.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024
He chronicles how white evangelicalism is not an ancient tradition, as its proponents often assume, but an American phenomenon.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2024
Matthew Taylor, a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, told me that in terms of influence, Wallnau may be “the most important political theologian of evangelicalism in this century so far.”
From Slate • Sep. 25, 2024
His sister gives us a vivid sketch of the lad, whose going over to the dissenters was resented by the formal and stern clerk, and whose evangelicalism was a reproach to the others.
From Life of William Carey by Smith, George
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