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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or occurring at Pentecost.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or being any of various Christian religious congregations whose members seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit, in emulation of the Apostles at Pentecost.
  • noun A member of a Pentecostal congregation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Pentecost; occurring or happening at Pentecost: as, the pentecostal gift of tongues; pentecostal offerings.
  • Offerings formerly made at Pentecost or Whitsuntide by parishioners to their priest, or by inferior churches to the mother church, etc. Also called Whitsun-farthings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, or relating to Pentecost
  • adjective of, or relating to a Christian religious movement that emphasizes the Holy Spirit
  • noun a member of a Pentecostal church
  • noun obsolete An offering formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or occurring at Pentecost
  • noun any member of a Pentecostal religious body
  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of any of various Pentecostal religious bodies or their members

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Examples

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  • By many estimates, some 20% of Brazilians are now Protestants — the majority practicing in Pentecostal churches such as the Assembly of God.

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  • A pastor visiting from Kiambu, Kenya named Thomas Muthee who gained fame within Pentecostal circles by claiming that he defeated a local witch, Mama Jane, in a great spiritual battle, blesses Sarah Palin.

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  • In addition, many of the Aladura Churches, which were created about 80 years ago, followed certain Pentecostal practices such as speaking in tongues and may be considered under the Pentecostal umbrella.

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  • Central Florida is in the middle of the boom in Hispanic Pentecostal growth because of the influx of Puerto Ricans and immigrants from countries such as Nicaragua, Honduras and the Caribbean, where Pentecostalism has flourished for decades.

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  • England 'aving what they call Pentecostal visitations. "

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  • The Reverend Willie Wilson, in his book How African Religion Changed the American Church, calls the Pentecostal movement of the twentieth century a kind of African religion in America.

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  • The Reverend Willie Wilson, in his book How African Religion Changed the American Church, calls the Pentecostal movement of the twentieth century a kind of African religion in America.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • The Reverend Willie Wilson, in his book How African Religion Changed the American Church, calls the Pentecostal movement of the twentieth century a kind of African religion in America.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • The Reverend Willie Wilson, in his book How African Religion Changed the American Church, calls the Pentecostal movement of the twentieth century a kind of African religion in America.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

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