All 8 Uses of
evangelist
in
Moby Dick
- He looked at me with a sort of condescending concern and compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such a sensible young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan piety.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- Nor even in our superstitions do we fail to throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms; all ghosts rising in a milk-white fog—Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that even the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on his pallid horse.†
Chpt 40-42evangelist = a Christian who tries to convince others to become Christian
- But what it was that inscrutable Ahab said to that tiger-yellow crew of his—these were words best omitted here; for you live under the blessed light of the evangelical land.†
Chpt 46-48
- So, too, Venice; I have been there; the holy city of the blessed evangelist, St. Mark!†
Chpt 52-54evangelist = a Christian who tries to convince others to become Christian
- 'Is there a copy of the Holy Evangelists in the Golden Inn, gentlemen?'†
Chpt 52-54evangelists = Christians who try to convince others to become Christian
- 'Excuse me for running after you, Don Sebastian; but may I also beg that you will be particular in procuring the largest sized Evangelists you can.'†
Chpt 52-54
- 'This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists,' said Don Sebastian, gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure.†
Chpt 52-54
- There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath; like those fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St. John.†
Chpt 109-111evangelist = a Christian who tries to convince others to become Christian
Definition:
a Christian who tries to convince others to become Christian -- especially on television, radio, or in large gatherings
or when qualified (such as "an ecosystem evangelist"): anyone who tires to convince others of something
or when qualified (such as "an ecosystem evangelist"): anyone who tires to convince others of something
As a proper noun (capitalized), "Evangelist" may reference any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.