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Definition
a Christian who tries to convince others to become Christian — especially on television, radio, or in large gatheringsor when qualified (such as "an ecosystem evangelist"): anyone who tires to convince others of something
- Rick Warren may be today's most admired evangelist.
- The well-known evangelist, Billy Graham, filled the stadium.
- He was also the vice president of Youth for Christ International, an evangelical organization.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- The third is devoted to the lives and labors of the evangelical ministers who, during the same period, had the care of souls.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- Nowadays, you don't see many families—the husband, wife, and children—that are so evangelistic.Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
- Because he had no church into which to lure converts, if there should be any, Kiyoshi Tanimoto soon realized, the futility of this evangelism.John Hersey -- Hiroshima
- This "revival" started tonight with an evangelist named James Robison.Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
- But the Scope of all the Evangelists (as may appear by reading them) was the same.Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
- In all honesty, what I believe is neither inspirational nor evangelical.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- Evangelist Billy Graham is also warning the president to stay away from Dallas.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- I slept a little at our hotel in the city, and was awakened by the sounds of an evangelist preaching through a bullhorn outside on the street.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- As if he were some newfound evangelical being conveyed down out of the mountains and north across the flat bleak landscape toward Monclova.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- They had built their church there, won a handful of converts and were already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and villages.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- Echo was taking himself out, telling Delta to go after the impostor — and while doing so to kill the evangelical butcher.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- The only thing that doesn't quite fit is that he seems to be an evangelical and was a member of the Word of Life in the nineties."Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- The evangelist was preaching "sin and redemption," the infinite grace of God and His pardon for human frailty.Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
- CHAPTER XXV The Little Evangelist It was Sunday afternoon.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists, people like the Apostle Paul or Billy Graham or Brigham Young.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- Lifestyle change, for which I could now preach like an evangelist.Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
- All cut up into verses, too; so that it is like one of the other evangelists read in a dream, when things are the same, yet not the same.Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure