(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."
Missionary
Definition:
(n) One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.
(a.) Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.
Example Sentences:
(1) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
(2) He sent his first missionary to America in 1960, the year he married Hak Ja Han.
(3) On being a Jesuit Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
(4) Two months later, Ugay said, he learned that he was accused of illegal missionary activity, based on evidence from three witnesses, two of whom had not been present at his talk.
(5) Most travel (71%) was for vacations, 13% was for teaching or study, 11% for business, and 5% for missionary activities.
(6) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
(7) The former missionary college used as the set for the BBC's hit series Call the Midwife is to be redeveloped as a luxury housing estate, forcing a dramatic plot shift in the show's 2013 Christmas special .
(8) The 44-year-old now faces a fine for allegedly conducting illegal missionary activity, an administrative offence under the new Yarovaya law, a package of legal amendments intended to fight terrorism that is named after its author, the MP Irina Yarovaya.
(9) Basketball-star-turned-would-be-diplomat Dennis Rodman clashed with CNN over imprisoned missionary Kenneth Bae when interviewed about an historic basketball game in North Korea.
(10) Their organisation calls them “mission co-workers”, not missionaries, in an effort to show they’re collaborating with, not directing, local partners.
(11) The humanism of an African survival culture that he sought to define in his work is reflected in the way he conducted his relationships, whether he was writing to a former missionary teacher or to the writer Langston Hughes.
(12) But weirdly, instead of being turned away, I am allowed in by an Australian missionary called Cherie.
(13) You made history, you opened their eyes.” In his eulogy, the Rev Steve Daniels Jr of Shiloh Missionary Baptist church questioned why racial profiling still occurred in the US He said he grew up in Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s and understood the frustrations expressed by today’s protesters in response to police shootings of black people.
(14) "We're doing a missionary job; we're educating people about other brands," says Wei.
(15) A case of cutaneous myiasis produced by D. hominis in a 26-year Polish missionary, who spent 3 months in Peru in 1990 is presented.
(16) A number of US missionaries have been arrested in the past, with some allowed to return home after interventions by high-profile US figures.
(17) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(18) In 1966 she was sent as a missionary to Brazil at a time when the progressive practices of liberation theology were sweeping through the Catholic church in Latin America.
(19) During his homily he said that, given theirs was the foremost Catholic country in Asia, Filipinos were called to be missionaries of faith.
(20) The functional complementarity of Western medicine to the pluralistic Chinese medical structure enabled missionary medicine to gain increasing credibility from the Chinese, although few Chinese actually understood the basic principles of Western medicine.