(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."
Revivalist
Definition:
(n.) A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(2) One key question in coming months will be the influence on the new government of the vast conservative Hindu revivalist organisation where Modi started his career as an activist.
(3) And you could also draw comparisons with the likes of the Coral and other psychedelic Scousers (hallucinogenic pop being historically loved by Liverpudlians ), but they were revivalists, too, so they don't count as contemporary.
(4) Hardcore punk revivalists Loom are releasing a limited-edition album on cassette this month, featuring covers of 80s bands such as Jesus Lizard and Bad Brains.
(5) A former organiser in the country's biggest Hindu revivalist organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), he has been accused of failing to stop, or even encouraging, riots in which 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in Gujarat shortly after he took power there.
(6) It was an agglomeration of political blocs and elites: beside the entire transitional presidential council and the Justice and Development bloc, there were three senior Hashidi brothers, two major sheikhs from the Bakil tribal grouping, two senior members of the Awlaki tribe, Generals Ali Muhsin Salih and Ali Uliwa, and a plethora of other established political actors (although not the Zaydi revivalist Huthis).
(7) The decision followed accusations that the former organiser for a rightwing Hindu revivalist organisation had stood by, or even encouraged rioters, during sectarian violence in the western state of Gujarat in 2002, when he was chief minister.
(8) However, he won fame above all as a writer of popular literature and tracts, thus exercising a great influence on the revivalist movement at the end of the 18th century.
(9) The BJP has its origins in the nationalist and religious revivalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), or National Volunteer Association, but has tried to distance itself from the more hardline elements in recent months.
(10) It's like being an atheist at a revivalist meeting.
(11) "We try and be adventurous but not to be overbearing, but then again we'd hate to be trapped by some revivalist tag, whatever it might be, because that's not what we're about.
(12) The young men are from the Bajrang Dal, a youth organisation dedicated to advancing a rigorous and revivalist version of Hinduism .
(13) We definitely represent the Hindu community and we feel confident and strong.” Some commentators say the new Indian government, in power since May and led by a prime minister, Narendra Modi , whose political origins lie in a hardline Hindu revivalist organisation, has inadvertently encouraged an intolerant atmosphere.
(14) The efforts for the establishment of this school were gradually conjoined with the national-revivalist and national-liberation movement.
(15) Corbynmania storms Scotland – part revivalist fervour, part Spinal Tap Read more My brother John, aged 60, is among them.
(16) The popularity of revivalist, if quietist and apolitical, groups such as the Tablighi Jamaat as well as a steady flow of young French Muslims to Egypt or Gulf States to study in religious schools was a serious concern, but major protests in 2006 following the publication of cartoons supposedly ridiculing Mohammed were entirely peaceful.
(17) Work and the ‘glass floor’ should top Labour’s agenda | Letters Read more One thing the welfare bill accomplishes is to put people who have failed a fitness to work test on to the same payment as people who have passed it, like some tent-revivalist preacher tipping sinners out of wheelchairs and screaming “Walk!” Who would have thought that electing people who hate the welfare state to run our welfare state could go so badly?
(18) Taking place at the end of September, it features five dozen bands, from straight revivalists employing standard psych tropes – swirly melodics, phased vocals – to exponents who stretch the definition of the term, acknowledging the past but accommodating more recent innovations.
(19) Click here to view As a band playing loud, angular guitar music in 2014, Speedy Ortiz have, inevitably, been pegged as 90s alt-rock revivalists.
(20) In recent years; however, there has emerged a revivalistic movement in the realm of Chinese medical care.