evangelical
adjective
Also evangelic. pertaining to or in keeping with the gospel and its teachings.
evangelically
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a word derived from
evangelical.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, the company’s users seem evangelically eager to spread the word on its behalf.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
“I believe in the future, something like this will be in every home,” he said, not overly evangelically.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
Josh Onomah, 18, Tottenham Hotspur, midfielder Mauricio Pochettino is not always given to effusiveness, so it caught the attention when he spoke almost evangelically about one of Tottenham’s young prospects in December.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2016
Another Woolwich woman told the BBC how Adebolajo would stand on Powis Street, Woolwich's shopping high street, "evangelically hectoring" shoppers coming in and out of WH Smiths.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2013
Sure am I, when she told her shaveling all His Magdalen's adventure, tears were shed, Forgiveness evangelically shown, 'Loose hair and lifted eye,'—as some one says.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
