Evangelize Definition

ĭ-vănjə-līz
evangelized, evangelizes, evangelizing
verb
evangelized, evangelizes, evangelizing
To preach the gospel to.
Webster's New World
To convert or try to convert to Christianity.
Webster's New World
To preach the gospel.
Webster's New World
To promulgate or promote (a doctrine or idea, for example) enthusiastically.
American Heritage
To promulgate or promote something enthusiastically.
American Heritage
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Origin of Evangelize

  • From Old French évangéliser, from Latin evangelizare, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγελίζω (euangelizesthai)

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Evangelize Sentence Examples

  • He was zealous also in the cause of foreign missions, and in a sermon preached at the opening of the new century he urged that a supreme obligation rested upon Britain at this epoch in the world's history to seek to evangelize all nations.

  • He warmly supported the Catholic missionary bishop of Holland, Rovenius, in his contests with the Jesuits, who were trying to evangelize that country without regard to the bishop's wishes.

  • Smith, Short History of Christian Missions, pp. '16-118; Gustavus Vasa in 1559 made an effort to educate and evangelize the Lapps.

  • Such were the Oratorians of St Philip Neri, founded to evangelize the middle classes of Rome.

  • To the latter (the coast of New England), the Northmen during the same period made " temporary visits for timber and peltries, or missionary voyages to evangelize for a season the natives."

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