(n.) A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Evangelist Christian right is at the heart of Harper's Conservative party, and after years of being shushed, it will now demand an end to a number of things, including abortion rights.
(2) From their landmark album OK Computer on, the band seemed like evangelists for the revolutionary possibilities of a digital world, self-releasing 2007's In Rainbows on a pay-what-you-want download.
(3) The new technology has not proved as popular as some industry evangelists predicted, initially because of the cost of digital sets.
(4) The torch began its day in Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events will take place, and progressed through the east London neighbourhoods that evangelists of the London Olympics believe will be regenerated by the £9.3bn in public money poured into the area It ended the day in Waltham Forest in the hands of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers footballer who suffered a heart attack on the pitch at White Hart Lane in March and was raised in the area.
(5) Mugisha says evangelists have played on the psyche of many Ugandans.
(6) He was a cannabis evangelist, who believed it was wrong to deny anybody its healing powers.
(7) At this point, venture capitalists are drooling over bitcoin and its possibilities,” says Roger Ver, a bitcoin investor and evangelist whose philanthropic donations earned him the nickname “ Bitcoin Jesus ”.
(8) Bret Conkin, FundRazr This could really be the future for charities: The charity sector that adopts this method in their mix will find it a powerful and empowering method to overcome donor fatigue, marshall evangelists and create deep connection.
(9) The John XXIV of the Left Behind series – 16 books by the Christian evangelists Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins – was also contentiously presented.
(10) There are those who point out that Ferguson's preferred model of US behaviour, as an evangelist for liberal democracy, backed by military force if necessary, is also fantastically expensive.
(11) Anton Yelchin obituary Read more Meanwhile, I’m keeping a hopeful eye on Paul Dano , whose career to date has been full of surprises, from evangelist to Hitler impersonator to Pierre in War & Peace.
(12) The main speakers were three US evangelists: Scott Lively, Don Schmierer and Caleb Lee Brundidge.
(13) St Luke Passion James MacMillan ’s latest biblical work, based on the Gospel of Luke with the adult chorus acting as the evangelist and a children’s choir singing the words of Christ, gets its British premiere, courtesy of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by the composer.
(14) (Rodman, incidentally is in North Korea at the time of writing, promoting basketball for Paddy Power, and possibly also trying to secure the release of an American-Korean Christian Evangelist called Kenneth Bae.
(15) He is an evangelist, sharing the love of Christ which he himself knows.
(16) Not entirely surprisingly, he seems caught between the upbeat outlook of the cultural evangelist, and the pessimism of someone keenly aware that the Cajun life is on the wane.
(17) "Games don't have to punish players," says Oscar Clark, a gaming evangelist at EveryPlay .
(18) Kenneth Bae, a Korean American described by a North Korean court as a militant Christian evangelist, is also being held in the North after he was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to 15 years' hard labour on charges of seeking to topple the regime.
(19) We are evangelists,” said Bishop Serpa, who is the Cuban head of the Caritas charity and the head of Catholic missions to Cuba’s prisons.
(20) That news prompted Kenneth Roth , executive director of Human Rights Watch, to tweet: "In name of Africa culture Uganda Pres will sign anti-gay law pushed by US evangelists toughening British colonial ban."
Itinerant
Definition:
(a.) Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.
(a.) One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Active surveillance components included an itinerant chest clinic and survey chest roentgenography program, epidemiologic case investigations, and skin testing.
(2) After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age.
(3) Porters, rickshaw drivers, nurses, patients, students, bureaucrats, doctors and itinerant holy men all stand to eat their heavily subsidised meals, priced at no more than 5 rupees (5p) and eaten at ferocious speed with fingers from tin plates.
(4) You itinerate based on those failures - or as they say in technology "fail early and often", to develop a model that works.
(5) Hearing the story, I realise that present contentment – enjoying the gym, pool, doctor, bar and other conveniences – masks itinerant pasts, full of adventure.
(6) The most significant factors associated with partial immunisation were found to be the socioeconomic and educational status of the children's fathers and itinerancy.
(7) People were crushed when their new concrete homes collapsed, a risk they would not have faced in their itinerant life on the grasslands.
(8) Ivermectin's ability to inhibit worm migration through the tissues is discussed, with respect to the role of itinerant males in the reproductive cycle of Onchocerca volvulus.
(9) An interview with Cameron Crowe done over the course of that year for Rolling Stone gives a flavour of the time, Bowie living an itinerant lifestyle around spooky, decadent LA, culminating in a megalomaniacal rant: “I believe that rock’n’roll is dangerous.
(10) Such a reasoning strongly denounces the psychosocial problems of women, but tends to forget the vulnerability of men which is nonetheless clearly evident in official statistics on suicide, dependence on alcohol and other drugs, violence and itinerancy.
(11) Wasn’t reform exactly what was offered to the masses of the Hijaz by Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the mid-18th century itinerant preacher who allied with the House of Saud?
(12) She left Michigan when her daughter was 16 and became itinerant, sleeping in her truck, because unlike plastic or drywall, metal emitted no chemical fumes and was safe.
(13) Tadini, an Italian by birth, was an itinerant ophthalmologist living in the second half of the eighteenth century.
(14) Sharma, the itinerant vendor, laughed at the idea of a refrigerated barrow, or an air-conditioned home.
(15) Born Jeane Jordan, in Oklahoma, she was the daughter of an itinerant and unsuccessful oil prospector.
(16) There were no books in Darwish's own home and his first exposure to poetry was through listening to an itinerant singer on the run from the Israeli army.
(17) This surgery was frequently performed by itinerant mendicants, charlatans, and also by the more legitimate members of the surgical community living in the 13 states at the time of the Revolution.
(18) The main activities involve itinerant screening in the communities and group screening at the workplaces.
(19) Some Malians have sympathy with the Tuareg, who are dispersed across Saharan Africa , and whose culture and itinerant lifestyle are disappearing.
(20) Poor motivation, itinerancy and alcohol abuse were the most common factors causing difficulty.