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

  • noun Evangelical beliefs or doctrines.
  • noun Adherence to a church or party professing evangelical beliefs or doctrines.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Adherence to and insistence upon evangelical doctrines, especially in the Church of England: sometimes employed as a term of opprobrium.

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

  • noun Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism.

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

  • noun Christianity (historical) Lutheranism.
  • noun Christianity Protestant movement basing its theology almost entirely on Scripture, which is held to be inerrant.
  • noun Christian fundamentalism.

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

  • noun stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation

Etymologies

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From Greek evangel(ion), ‘gospel’ + adjectival ending + ism.

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