evangelist

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  1. noun Any one of the authors of the four New Testament gospel books: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John.
  2. noun One who practices evangelism, especially a Protestant preacher or missionary.

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  • This was too much for the evangelist, although she should have remembered her father passed through that same experience and often preached for the Baptists in Edinburgh. —  Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
  • Disclaimer: I work for Splunk as their evangelist, and spend a lot of time studying various timeline based textual data and writing interesting apps for the software. —  Latest Articles
  • I don't mean to come across as some kind of libertarian tech-evangelist, and I think that some reasonable precautions -- like not allowing Google to street-level map a military base -- should be taken. —  FP Passport
  • She is noted for her preaching which focuses on delivering people from witchcraft, but ever since the documentary on how children branded witches by pastors in Akwa Ibom are maltreated, the evangelist has been at the centre of the storm following allegation that her movies encourage the stigmatisation of witches. —  Renegade Futurist
  • Earlier this week I was described as a social media evangelist - in other words someone who sets out to 'convert' people to social media and being a passionate supporter o ... —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
 

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  1. from Middle English evangeliste, evaungeliste, ewangeliste, from Old French evangeliste, French évangéliste = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian evangelista = D. G. Danish Swedish evangelist, from Late Latin evangelista, properly euangelista, from Greek εὐαγγελιστής, in N. T. a preacher of the gospel, ecclesiastical one of the writers of the four Gospels, from εὐαγγελίξεσθαι, preach the gospel, in classical Greek bring good news, announce good news, from εὐάγγελος, bringing good news: see evangel.
 

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/əˈvændʒɛlɪst/
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