1. (a.) Seeking the conversion of others; relating to the four Christian Gospels\.

2. (a.) Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.

3. (a.) Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminently orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of Justification by Faith alone; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox.

4. (n.) One of evangelical principles.

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