Evangelist - English meaning

noun

A person who works in an organized and active way towards a goal.

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Human rights campaigners are furious at the decision

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A person or thing that converts something.

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The would-be converter of a building to domestic use

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A machine or device that changes something into a different form

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A fighter in the medieval crusades.

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Participation in the crusade was said to have great spiritual value for the individual crusader.

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Someone who makes a determined effort to achieve or stop something because of their strong beliefs

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He caught the public imagination as a crusader against corruption.

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A person who zealously teaches or professes faith in the gospel.

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Two centuries earlier an ‘evangelical’ was the equivalent of ‘a gospeller’.

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A religious speaker who tries to make people who are listening to him or her very excited, by using an emotional way of speaking

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A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote christianity in a foreign country.

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Yet how many christians today give even a tenth to support pastors, evangelists and missionaries?

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a missionary or a religious mission.

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Missionary work

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A person who has been sent to a place, usually a foreign country, to teach a religion to the people who live there

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Pearl buck was raised in china, where her parents were christian missionaries.

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A person who preaches, especially a minister of religion.

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Pray regularly from the pulpit for god to raise up preachers and missionary church planters.

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A person who gives a religious speech, esp. one whose job is to do this

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A person who disseminates propaganda.

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A highly persuasive political propagandist

adjective

Consisting of or spreading propaganda.

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Propagandist films

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Someone who creates or spreads propaganda

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Communist/nazi/republican/right-wing propagandists, the papers were full of the most blatant propag…

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A person who to tries to persuade other people to accept a particular religious or political belief, idea, or way of life

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I sat next to a woman who turned out to be a buddhist proselytizer., she is a tireless proselytizer…

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Someone who preaches (= gives religious speeches) on television in order to persuade people to become christians and give money to religious organizations

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A famous televangelist came to speak in town.