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evangelicalism

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e·van·gel·i·cal·ism  (vn-jl-k-lzm, vn-)
n.
1. often Evangelicalism Evangelical beliefs or doctrines.
2. Adherence to a church or party professing evangelical beliefs or doctrines.
evangelism, evangelicalism
the missionary, reforming, or redeeming spirit evident throughout the history of Christianity in various guises or emphases. — evangelical, evangelistic, adj.
See also: Christianity
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Noun1.evangelicalism - stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation
Protestantism - the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation
revivalism - an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith


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The Vincys had the readiness to enjoy, the rejection of all anxiety, and the belief in life as a merry lot, which made a house exceptional in most county towns at that time, when Evangelicalism had cast a certain suspicion as of plague-infection over the few amusements which survived in the provinces.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
I'll send it over to you; and there are some other books that you may like to see, Irwine--pamphlets about Antinomianism and Evangelicalism, whatever they may be.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
Stelling's doctrine was of no particular school; if anything, it had a tinge of evangelicalism, for that was "the telling thing" just then in the diocese to which King's Lorton belonged.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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