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Synonyms for evangelizing

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ih-van-juh-lahyz
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈvæn dʒəˌlaɪz

Définition of evangelizing

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French evangeliser "to spread or preach the Gospel," and directly from Medieval Latin or Late Latin evangelizare, from Greek euangelizesthai (see evangelist). Related: Evangelized; evangelizing; evangelization.
  • verb preach
Example sentences :
  • He resolved to throw his soul into the work of evangelizing them at all costs.
  • Extract from : « The Shellback's Progress » by Walter Runciman
  • They are Americanizing as well as evangelizing the population.
  • Extract from : « A Tour of the Missions » by Augustus Hopkins Strong
  • It took us both some time to realize how he would set about evangelizing.
  • Extract from : « Tenting on the Plains » by Elizabeth B. Custer
  • She could not be manifest in her evangelizing capacity, but was persecuted.
  • Extract from : « Birth of a Reformation » by Andrew Byers
  • Mrs. Wheaton's methods of evangelizing are sometimes dramatic.
  • Extract from : « Prisons and Prayer: Or a Labor of Love » by Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton
  • I let that side go, and resolved to dog him when on his evangelizing tours in the back-veld.
  • Extract from : « Prester John » by John Buchan
  • How sympathetic, how charitable, how evangelizing it has become!
  • Extract from : « Maids Wives and Bachelors » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • If only a priest might come by on some evangelizing journey to the Eskimo!
  • Extract from : « The Wilderness Trail » by Frank Williams
  • Francis passed the following year in evangelizing tours in Italy.
  • Extract from : « Life of St. Francis of Assisi » by Paul Sabatier
  • When this is really the case with us, it matters not whether we are sweeping a crossing or evangelizing a continent.
  • Extract from : « The Great Commission » by C. H. (Charles Henry) Mackintosh

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