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evangelicalism

evangelicalism noun: lutheranism and continental Calvinism.

Noun

evangelicalism (countable and uncountable, plural evangelicalisms)

  1. (historical) Lutheranism and continental Calvinism.
  2. Contemporary Protestant movement based on energetic proselytism and a renewed focus on the Bible and in the belief in its inerrancy.
  3. (broadly, imprecise) Christian fundamentalism.
  4. (by analogy) Islamic movements which are based on preaching and proselytism (dawah).
    • Islamic evangelicalism helped win over Iberian notables […]2010, Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall, page 108

evangelicalism meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

evangelicalism in Tamil

செருமானிய சீர்திருத்த சபை, கிறித்தவ அடிப்படைவாதப் போக்கு

evangelicalism in Indonesian

Lutheranism and continental Calvinism
evangelikalisme
contemporary movement
evangelikalisme

Forms of evangelicalism

pluralevangelicalisms

Origin of evangelicalism

From evangelical + -ism.

Words formed from evangelicalism

Questions about evangelicalism

What does evangelicalism mean?
Evangelicalism means lutheranism and continental Calvinism.
What is evangelicalism in Tamil?
Evangelicalism in Tamil is செருமானிய சீர்திருத்த சபை, கிறித்தவ அடிப்படைவாதப் போக்கு. See Evangelicalism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is evangelicalism?
Evangelicalism is a noun.
What is the plural of evangelicalism?
The plural of evangelicalism is evangelicalisms.

Words near evangelicalism in the dictionary

  1. evangelical
  2. evangelical counsel
  3. evangelical counsels
  4. Evangelical Lutheran
  5. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  6. evangelicalism
  7. evangelicalisms
  8. evangelicality
  9. evangelicalization
  10. evangelicalize
  11. evangelicalized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: evangelicalism (page history and authors); evangelicalism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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