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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

Charney was known to be an obsessive, hands-on leader of the company, dedicated to producing the clothing ethically, and though many former employees hated him, others would evangelically sing his praises.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2014

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 Clarke, Helen Archibald