Pentecostal
adjective
of or relating to Pentecost, a Christian festival commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles.
Pentecostalist
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a word derived from
Pentecostal.
Example Sentences
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For a time, he came under the care of his paternal grandmother, a strict Pentecostalist.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2022
Style and substanceHats offDeadly silence In word and deed, that was a rebuke to the church for its retreat from the poor urban peripheries, where Pentecostalist competitors have flourished.
From Economist ● Aug. 1, 2013
The hero is Jeanette, a working-class Northerner whose adoptive mother is an evangelical Pentecostalist with peculiar, and extremely quotable, opinions.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2012
Peter Berger, an American sociologist, has found that Weber’s theories have a certain plausibility in Latin America, where a Protestant, and especially a Pentecostalist minority, outperforms the Catholic majority.
From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2011
The crowd pleaser onstage was Jimmy Swaggart, 51, the flashy Louisiana Pentecostalist who ranks as one of the top TV evangelists in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
