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Past tense of evangelize

regular verb

The past tense of evangelize is evangelized. The past participle is also evangelized.

Forms of evangelize

Base form (V1)evangelize /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlaɪz/
Past tense (V2)evangelized
Past participle (V3)evangelized
Present participleevangelizing
Third person singularevangelizes

Evangelized in a sentence

  • A majority of American Catholics have been "sacramentalized," but never catechized or evangelized.2019, Kathy Schiffer, Sacramentalized But Not Evangelized? Maybe You Just Forgot!, National Catholic Register. From the entry sacramentalize

Meaning of evangelize

  1. verb To tell people about (a particular branch of) Christianity, especially in order to convert them; to preach the gospel to.
  2. verb To preach any ideology to those who have not yet been converted to it.
  3. verb To be enthusiastic about something, and to attempt to share that enthusiasm with others; to promote.

Full definition of evangelize

Questions about the past tense of evangelize

What is the past tense of evangelize?
The past tense of evangelize is evangelized.
What is the past participle of evangelize?
The past participle of evangelize is evangelized.
Is evangelize a regular or irregular verb?
Evangelize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: evangelize (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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