EVANGELISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evangelism mean? 

• EVANGELISM (noun)
  The noun EVANGELISM has 1 sense:

1. zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel

  Familiarity information: EVANGELISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVANGELISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("evangelism" is a kind of...):

discourse; preaching; sermon (an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evangelism"):

televangelism (evangelism at a distance by the use of television)

Derivation:

evangelise (convert to Christianity)

evangelise (preach the gospel (to))

evangelist (a preacher of the Christian gospel)

Evangelist ((when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)

evangelize (preach the gospel (to))